Who played the Count of Monte Cristo in France. Active characters. The plot of the novel

Edmond Dantes - main character, a sailor unjustly imprisoned. After escaping, he becomes rich, noble and famous under the name of the Count of Monte Cristo. Also used names: Abbot Busoni, Lord Wilmore, Maltese Zaccone, Sinbad the Sailor.
Abbe Faria- Comrade Edmond Dantes in custody, a learned monk who revealed to him the secret of the treasure on the island of Monte Cristo.
Fernand Mondego- Cousin Mercedes, a fisherman who wants to marry her. Later becomes lieutenant general, comte de Morcert and peer of France.
Mercedes Herrera- the bride of Edmond Dantes, who later became the wife of Fernand.
Albert de Morcer- son of Fernand and Mercedes.
Danglars- an accountant on the "Pharaoh", submitted the idea of denouncing Dantes, later becomes a baron and a wealthy banker.
Hermina Danglars- the wife of Danglars, in the past the widow of the Marquis de Nargon and the mistress of the royal prosecutor de Villefort, who is fond of the stock game. Biological mother of Benedetto.
Eugenie Danglars- the daughter of the Danglars, who dreams of becoming an independent artist.
Gerard de Villefort- assistant prosecutor of Marseilles, then became the royal prosecutor of Paris. Biological father of Benedetto.
René de Saint-Meran- the first wife of Villefort, mother of Valentina, daughter of the Marquis and Marquise de Saint-Meran.
Eloise de Villefort- the second wife of the royal prosecutor, ready for anything for the sake of her son Edward.
Noirtier de Villefort- father of the royal prosecutor, former Girondin and senator of Napoleon, chairman of the Bonapartist club, later paralyzed. "Despite this, he thinks, he desires, he acts."
Valentine de Villefort- Villefort's eldest daughter from her first marriage, a wealthy heiress, actually a nurse with her grandfather, beloved Maximilian Morrel.
Edward de Villefort- the young son of the royal prosecutor from his second marriage, a spoiled and cruel child.
Gaspard Caderousse- a neighbor of Dantes, at first a tailor, and later an innkeeper. For some time he was a smuggler, later became an accomplice in the murder, a fugitive from hard labor.
Giovanni Bertuccio- the manager of the affairs of the Count of Monte Cristo, a retired Corsican smuggler, Foster father Benedetto.
Benedetto- a fugitive from hard labor, the illegitimate son of the royal prosecutor and Baroness Danglars. He was known in Parisian society as Viscount Andrea Cavalcanti.
Pierre Morrel- Marseille merchant, owner of the ship "Pharaoh", benefactor of Dantes.
Maximilian Morrel- son of Pierre Morrel, captain of spagi, protégé of the Count of Monte Cristo.
Julie Morrel (Herbeau) Daughter of Pierre Morrel.
Emmanuelle Herbeau Julie's husband.
Doctor d'Avrigny- the family doctor Wilforov, who was the first to suspect the terrible secret of this family.
Franz d'Epinay- the groom imposed on Valentine de Villefort, friend of Albert de Morcert, son of General de Quesnel (Baron d'Epinay), killed in a duel by Noirtier de Villefort.
Lucien Debray- Secretary of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, current lover and partner in the stock game of Baroness Danglars.
Beauchamp- Editor of the Impartial Voice newspaper, friend of Albert de Morser.
Raoul de Chateau-Renaud- French aristocrat, baron, friend of the Viscount de Morcer (like the three previous ones).
Hyde- the slave of the count, the daughter of the Pasha Ali-Tebelin, betrayed by Fernand.
Luigi Wampa- a young shepherd who became the leader of a gang of robbers in the vicinity of Rome. He owes his life and freedom to the Count of Monte Cristo, in return he swore never to touch either the Count himself or his friends.
Jacopo- a Corsican sailor from the Young Amelia smugglers' tartan, who saved Dantes when he was drowning after escaping from the castle-prison of If. Subsequently - the captain of the yacht count.
batistin- valet of the Count of Monte Cristo.
Ali- a slave, a servant of the Count of Monte Cristo, a dumb Nubian (with a cut off tongue).

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On February 27, 1815, the three-masted ship "Pharaoh" returned to Marseille from the next voyage. Captain Leclerc was not destined to set foot on his native land: he died of a fever on the high seas. The young sailor Edmond Dantes took command, fulfilling another last will of the captain: the "pharaoh" enters the island of Elba, where Dantes passes the package received from the hands of Leclerc to Marshal Bertrand and meets with the disgraced emperor himself. Dantes is given a letter to be delivered to Paris, Mr. Noirtier - one of the conspirators preparing the return to the throne of Napoleon.

The owner of the "Pharaoh" Morrel invites Dantes to officially assume the position of captain of the ship. Envy-ridden accountant of the shipping company Danglars decides to remove Dantes. Together with a retired soldier, and now a simple fisherman, Fernand Mondego, who competes with Dantes for the right to marry the beautiful Mercedes, and the tailor Caderousse, who robbed Edmond's father during the voyage, Danglars composes an anonymous letter to the assistant prosecutor Marcel de Villefort. The meaning of the denunciation: Dantes is a secret agent of the Bonapartists. During the interrogation, Dantes, without concealment, tells Villefort about his visit to Elba. There is no corpus delicti; Villefort is ready to release the prisoner, but, after reading Marshal Bertrand's letter, he realizes that his happiness and life itself depend on this game of chance. After all, the addressee, Mr. Noirtier, a dangerous conspirator, is his father! It is not enough to burn the accursed letter, one must also get rid of Dantès, who can involuntarily announce the whole story - and as a result, de Villefort will lose not only his place, but also the hand of his bride Rene de Saint-Meran (she is the daughter of an old royalist; the views of Mr. Noirtier, his relationship with the groom is a mystery to them). Dantes is sentenced to life imprisonment in the Chateau d'If, a political prison in the middle of the sea, near Marseille...

Five years pass. Dantes is close to despair, he decides to die starvation. Suddenly, one evening, a dull rattle behind the wall reaches his ears. He is not alone here, someone is clearly digging a hole in the direction of his dungeon. Edmond starts digging the opposite tunnel. Many days of work are rewarded with the joy of meeting a comrade in misfortune. Abbe Faria - that's the name of the prisoner from the next cell - spent four years longer than Dantes in the Chateau d'If. Digging his hole, he hoped to break through to the outer wall of the prison, jump into the sea and swim to freedom. Alas, he miscalculated! Edmond comforts the abbot: there are now two of them, which means they can continue what they started with double energy. The abbot's strength is running out, soon - when he is close to salvation, he becomes seriously ill. Before his death, he initiates Dantes into the secret of the myriad treasure hidden by Cardinal Spada on the island of Monte Cristo three hundred years ago.

Having transferred the body of the abbot to his cell, Dantes hides in a bag in which the dead man was placed. In the morning, not noticing the substitution, they throw him into the sea - this is how the inhabitants of the Chateau d'If have been buried since the founding of the prison. Edmond is saved! He is picked up by smugglers. One of them, Jacopo, becomes a loyal companion of Dantes. A few months later, Edmond finally reaches the island of Monte Cristo. The treasures of Abbot Faria are truly innumerable.

Behind long years the absence of Dantes in the fate of those who were guilty of his suffering, there were also significant changes, Fernand Mondego rose to the rank of general (now his name is Comte de Morcer). Mercedes became his wife and bore him a son. Danglars is a wealthy banker. De Villefort is the royal prosecutor. Caderousse has said goodbye to the tailor's needle and scissors and runs a rural inn. ...God sends a strange guest to Caderousse. Abbot Busoni, who, according to him, confessed the dying Edmond Dantes, must fulfill the last will of the deceased. Dantes handed him a diamond, the money from the sale of which should be divided into five parts: equally - Mercedes, Danglars, Fernand, Caderousse and old Dantes. Caderousse is blinded by the brilliance of the diamond. He tells Abbot Busoni that Dantes was slandered by those whom he decided to do good, that Mercedes did not remain faithful to him. Yes, he, Caderousse, was a witness to the writing of the denunciation - but what could he do! Danglars and Fernand would have killed him on the spot if he had hinted at the unseemliness of their maliciousness! As for old Dantes, he did not have the strength to endure the blow of fate (in fact, Caderousse robbed him to the skin, and Edmond's father died of hunger). He, he, Caderousse, is the only heir of poor Dantes! Abbé Busoni hands Caderousse the diamond and disappears in the morning...

At the same time, Lord Wilmore, an agent of the banking house of Thomson and French, comes to the mayor of Marseille. He asks permission to look through the investigation file of the Abbe Faria, who died in If prison. He also has another assignment: to pay the debts of Mr. Morrel, the owner of a shipping company that is on the verge of collapse. Morrel's last hope was on his flagship - the three-masted "Pharaoh", but that one - oh evil rock! - dies in a shipwreck. Wilmore hands Morrel a six-figure promissory note, draws up a three-month grace period. But what can be done in three months! On the day the reprieve expires, Morrel's daughter receives a letter signed "Sinbad the Sailor" with the address where she will find the purse destined for her illustrious father. In the purse - a check for the amount owed by Morrel and a diamond the size of a walnut: the dowry of Mademoiselle Morrel. Everything that happened is like a fairy tale: but this is not enough. The "Pharaoh" enters the port of Marseilles safe and sound! The city is a witness to this miracle. With a smile, Lord Wilmore, aka Abbot Busoni, aka Count of Monte Cristo, he is Edmond Dantes: "Be happy, noble man! You deserve this happiness! .. And now - goodbye, philanthropy! Let the god of vengeance give me a place so that I punish the villains! .." With documents from my investigative file, stored together with the case of Abbé Faria, Edmond leaves Marseille...

The young Parisian aristocrat Baron Franz d'Epine, going to the carnival in Rome, set out to visit the legendary Elba. However, he changes his route: the ship sails past the island of Monte Cristo, where, according to rumors, a man who calls himself Sinbad the Sailor lives in a fabulous palace "The owner of the island receives Franz with such cordiality and luxury, which, it seems, none of the most powerful inhabitants of the earth dreamed of. In Rome, Franz unexpectedly meets Sinbad, who lives in the same hotel with him under the name of Count Monte Cristo. Franz's friend Viscount Albert de Morser captured by robbers from a gang of ataman Luigi Vampa, who terrifies the inhabitants of Rome. The Count of Monte Cristo saves Albert: "Ataman, you have violated our agreement, my friend's friend is my friend." Wampa is in disarray, he sternly scolds his thugs: count life! How could you act so recklessly!" Albert invites the count to visit Paris and be his guest of honor.

In the capital (where the count has not appeared before), Albert introduces him to his friends, including Morrel's son Maximillian. This acquaintance deeply excited the count - young Morrel is no less excited when he learns that the count uses the services of the Thomson and French banking house, which saved the life of their entire family.

The Count of Monte Cristo acquires several apartments in Paris and a house in Auteuil, at 28 Rue Fontaine, formerly owned by the Marquis de Saint-Meran. The Count's steward, Bertuccio, sees their move to this house as bad luck. Many years ago, he witnessed how de Villefort buried a newborn baby in the garden of his father-in-law's house - illegitimate son from an unknown lady, Bertuccio hurried to dig out the box - the baby was still alive. Bertuccio's sister-in-law raised the boy, whom they named Benedetto. The offspring of eminent parents embarked on an unrighteous path and landed in jail. But that's just one of two scary stories hidden by Bertuccio from the Count. In June 1829, he stopped at the tavern of Caderousse - the day after the abbot Busoni had been there (Bertuccio does not realize that the abbot, who rescued him a long time ago from hard labor, and the count are one person). The Abbe Caderousse diamond was sold for 45,000 francs to a reliable jeweler, and on the same night he stabbed him to death. Now Caderousse is where Bertuccio also happened to be: in hard labor. The count is sure that this is not the last drop in the cup that Caderousse must drink; as for Benedetto - if he is alive, then he will serve as a weapon of God's punishment ...

The city is full of rumors about the mysterious count and his wealth. At the Danglars bank, the Count opens "unlimited credit". Danglars questions the capabilities of the count: everything in the world has its limits. The count ironically: "For you - maybe, but not for me." - "No one has counted my cash register yet!" - Danglars is wounded. "In that case, I'm the first one to do it," the Count promises him. Monte Cristo draws closer not only to Danglars, who did not recognize poor Edmond in him, but also to the de Villefort family. The Count wins the favor of Madame de Villefort: the servant of Count Ali saved her from an accident and his son Villefort from marrying her (Villefort also has a daughter from his first marriage, Valentina, bound by bonds of love with Maximillian Morrel, but forced by relatives to marry Franz d " Epine). As if fate itself opens wide the doors in the houses of his sworn enemies for the Count of Monte Cristo, informs him of their other victims. ) recognizes in the Opera the man who gave the Turks a fortress that defended the city where her father ruled for two thousand purses of gold, and sold Gaide herself as a twelve-year-old girl into slavery to the Turkish sultan. This man was called Fernand Mondego; now he is known as Comte de Morser, General -lieutenant, member of the House of Peers. Gaide was bought Monte Cristo from the Sultan, the count swore revenge on the one who killed her father and she herself languished in captivity. He is not at all surprised that this scoundrel is Fernand: once a traitor risks staying traitor to the end.

Luxurious lunch at the house of Monte Cristo. The first blows prepared by the count for his offenders. Villefort turns pale when the count informs all the guests that he has found the skeleton of a baby in the garden, buried alive under the previous owner. Danglars learns that, playing on the stock exchange, he suffered losses in the amount of over a million francs (the count placed false information in the newspaper about the coup in Spain, and Danglars hurried to get rid of the shares of the Madrid Bank). Villefort informs Madame Danglars that the count seems to be privy to their secret: the unfortunate child was their illegitimate son. "You buried my child alive! God, this is your revenge!" exclaims Madame Danglars. "No, revenge is still waiting for us, and the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo will have to carry it out!" Villefort undertakes at all costs to find out the whole truth about the count; but the Abbé Busoni and Lord Wilmore, who found themselves in Paris, give him very contradictory information. The Count not only remains unrecognized by playing these two roles, but also confuses the tracks. A young man named Andrei Cavalcanti appears in Paris (one count, who showered him with bounty, knows that this is the runaway convict Benedetto). Immediately, Caderousse also grows out of the ground, assuring Benedetto that he is his offspring, and defrauding the young villain of money under the threat of breaking the brilliant career that has opened before him. Cavalcanti-Benedetto de Villefort is forced to obey: he laid eyes on the daughter of Danglars, a girl with a rich dowry. Wouldn't it be better, he suggests to Caderousse, to give the Count a good shake than to steal money from him with which the madman Monte Cristo lends him? Caderousse climbs into the Count's house - and comes face to face with the Abbé Busoni. The old convict betrays the young; he writes, under the abbot's dictation, a letter to Danglars, explaining who his son-in-law is in fact. Leaving the house of the Count of Monte Cristo, Caderousse runs into Benedetto's knife. Before he expires, the abbot lets him make sure that he, Monte Cristo and Edmond Dantes are one person ...

A hail of misfortune rains down on de Villefort's head: one after another, his father-in-law and mother-in-law suddenly die, then an old footman who drank lemonade from a decanter in the room of his father Noirtier. The doctor comes to the conclusion: they were all poisoned. The perpetrator lives in this house. All the servants of Villefort immediately ask for their resignation. The case gets a lot of publicity. And here is a new blow: Noirtier upsets the wedding of Valentina and Franz d "Epin (he promised this to his beloved granddaughter). Nouartier has a document in his secretary stating that in February 1815 he killed in fair fight General de Quesnel, Baron d "Epinay, who did not want to join the Bonapartist conspiracy.

Now it's Fernand's turn. There was a scandal in the House of Peers: the newspapers published a report about his low behavior during the siege of the fortress of Ioannina by the Turks. Hyde comes to the hearings in the Chamber and presents documents to the peers that confirm: all this is true, the position of General de Morser in society was bought at the price of betrayal. Albert de Morser challenges the Count to a duel, standing up for his father, but, after the whole truth about Fernand Mondego is revealed to him, he asks Dantes for forgiveness. Edmond is begging for this and Madame de Morser, who still loves him Mercedes. The Count accepts Albert's apology; on the same day he and his mother leave Paris. Morcer repeats his son's challenge, but after the Count of Monte Cristo reveals his true name to him, the dishonored general puts a bullet in his forehead.

Danglars is on the verge of ruin. He has to pay all the new bills with which the count's trusted representatives come to him. His last hope is that he will be able to make a decent party for his daughter: the young Cavalcanti is the confidant of Monte Cristo, and the hand of the giver is unlikely to become impoverished. After the signing of the marriage contract, the words from Caderousse's letter sound like a bolt from the blue: "Andrea Cavalcanti is a runaway convict!" Eugenie leaves Paris. Danglars no longer has a daughter or money. He leaves a farewell note to his wife (“I let you go the way I married you: with money, but without a good reputation”) and runs aimlessly. Andrea-Benedetto also runs, hoping to cross the border; but the gendarmes stop him. At the trial, he says: his father is the prosecutor de Villefort!

The last, most terrible blow of fate in the heart of de Villefort: Valentine is poisoned. He no longer has any doubts: the killer is his wife, who obtained an inheritance for herself and her son in such a terrible way (old Noirtier declared his granddaughter the only heiress). De Villefort threatens his wife with a scaffold. In desperation, Madame de Villefort takes poison and poisons the boy: "A good mother does not abandon a child for whom she has become a criminal." Villefort loses his mind; wandering around the garden of the house of the Count of Monte Cristo, he digs graves first in one place, then in another ...

The act of vengeance has been completed. Villefort is insane. Caderousse and Fernand are dead. Danglars was captured by robbers from the gang of Luigi Vampa and spends the last money on bread and water: the thugs sell him a pink salmon for a thousand francs, and in total he has less than fifty thousand in his pocket. The Count of Monte Cristo grants him life and freedom. Turned gray in one night, Danglars drags out the existence of a beggar.

Evil is punished. But why did the young Valentina de Villefort burn in his flame, not at all sharing the guilt of her father and stepmother? Why should Maximillian Morrel, the son of the one who made attempts to rescue Dantes from prison for many years in a row, grieve for her all his life? Leaving Paris, the Count performs the miracle of Valentina's resurrection. Her death was staged by him in a community with the old man Noirtier: a terrible poison was neutralized by a miraculous medicine - one of generous gifts Abbe Faria.

Now he is gradually beginning to carry out his plan of revenge. Considering that the death of his enemies will not be an adequate payment for his suffering, and also considering himself as an instrument of divine justice, an instrument of Providence, he gradually strikes his victims; as a result, the disgraced Fernand, from whom his wife and son left, commits suicide, Caderousse dies because of his own greed, Villefort loses his entire family and goes crazy, and Danglars is ruined and forced to flee France. In Italy, he is taken prisoner by robbers who obey Monte Cristo; they rob him of the last remnants of his once vast fortune. In total, Caderousse and Fernand are dead, Villefort is insane, and the life of the impoverished Danglars is in the balance.

But the count was already tired of revenge - in last days he realized that in taking revenge on those whom he considers criminals, he caused irreparable harm to many innocents, and the consciousness of this laid a heavy burden on his conscience. Therefore, he lets Danglars go free and even allows him to keep fifty thousand francs.

At the end of the novel, the count sails away with Gaide on a ship, leaving the island of Monte Cristo with its underground halls and enormous wealth as a gift to Morrel's son Maximilian and his lover, Valentina de Villefort, the prosecutor's daughter.

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Characters of 1838: Peer General Morcert

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Attorney Villefort

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Bonapartist Noirtier

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Valentine de Villefort

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Manager Bertuccio

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Greek Albanian Gaide

Textology

Characters

Roman contains a large number of characters, the main ones are described below.

Edmond Dantes- the main character, a sailor, unjustly imprisoned. After escaping, he becomes rich, noble and famous under the name Count of Monte Cristo. Also used names: Abbot Busoni, Lord Wilmore, Maltese Zaccone, Sinbad the Sailor.
Fernand Mondego- Cousin Mercedes, a fisherman who wants to marry her. Later becomes lieutenant general, Comte de Morcer and Peer of France.
Mercedes Herrera- the bride of Edmond Dantes, who later became the wife of Fernand.
- Albert de Morcer- son of Fernand and Mercedes.
Danglars- an accountant on the "Pharaoh", submitted the idea of denouncing Dantes, later becomes a baron and a wealthy banker.
- Hermina Danglars- the wife of Danglars, in the past the widow of the Marquis de Nargon and the mistress of the royal prosecutor de Villefort, who is fond of the stock game. biological mother Benedetto.
- Eugenie Danglars- the daughter of the Danglars, who dreams of becoming an independent artist.
Gerard de Villefort- assistant prosecutor of Marseilles, then became the royal prosecutor of Paris. biological father Benedetto.
- René de Saint-Meran- first wife of Villefort, mother of Valentina, daughter Marquise and Marquise de Saint-Meran.
- Eloise de Villefort- the second wife of the royal prosecutor, ready for anything for the sake of her son Edward.
- Noirtier de Villefort- father of the royal prosecutor, former Jacobin and Napoleon's senator, chairman of the Bonapartist club, later paralyzed. "Despite this, he thinks, he desires, he acts."
- Barrois- Servant of Noirtier de Villefort.
- Valentine de Villefort- Villefort's eldest daughter from her first marriage, a wealthy heiress, actually a nurse with her grandfather, beloved Maximilian Morrel.
- Edouard de Villefort- the young son of the royal prosecutor from his second marriage, a spoiled and cruel child.
- Lucien Debray- Secretary of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, current lover and partner in the stock game of Baroness Danglars.
- Doctor d'Avrigny- the family doctor Wilforov, who was the first to suspect the terrible secret of this family.
Gaspard Caderousse- a neighbor of Dantes, at first a tailor, and later an innkeeper. For some time he was a smuggler, later became an accomplice in the murder, a fugitive from hard labor.
- Carconta - wife of Caderousse
Pierre Morrel- Marseille merchant, owner of the ship "Pharaoh", benefactor of Dantes.
- Maximilian Morrel- son of Pierre Morrel, captain of spagi, protégé of the Count of Monte Cristo.
- Julie Morrel (Herbeau) Daughter of Pierre Morrel.
- Emmanuelle Erbo Julie's husband.
- Penelon- the old boatswain of the Pharaoh, helps Dantes when he saves Pierre Morrel from bankruptcy and disgrace. After serving at sea, he becomes a gardener for Julie and Emmanuel Herbaud.
- Cocles- Treasurer of Pierre Morrel, who remained faithful to him to the end. Then he became a gatekeeper for Julie and Emmanuel Herbaud.
Abbe Faria- Comrade Edmond Dantes in custody, a learned monk who revealed to him the secret of the treasure on the island of Monte Cristo.
Giovanni Bertuccio- the manager of the affairs of the Count of Monte Cristo, a retired Corsican smuggler, the adoptive father of Benedetto.
Benedetto- a fugitive from hard labor, the illegitimate son of the royal prosecutor and Baroness Danglars. He was known in Parisian society as a viscount Andrea Cavalcanti.
Franz d'Epinay- the groom imposed on Valentine de Villefort, friend of Albert de Morcert, son of General de Quesnel (Baron d'Epinay), killed in a duel by Noirtier de Villefort.
Beauchamp- Editor of the Impartial Voice newspaper, friend of Albert de Morser.
Raoul de Chateau-Renaud- French aristocrat, baron, friend of the Viscount de Morcer (like the three previous ones).
Hyde- the slave of the count, the daughter of the Janine Pasha Ali-Tebelin, betrayed by Fernand.
Luigi Wampa- a young shepherd who became the leader of a gang of robbers in the vicinity of Rome. He owes his life and freedom to the Count of Monte Cristo, in return he swore never to touch either the Count himself or his friends.
Peppino- a robber from the gang of Luigi Vampa, who was saved by the Count of Monte Cristo from the guillotine and later kidnapped Danglars when he fled to Italy.
Jacopo- a Corsican sailor from the Young Amelia smugglers' tartan, who saved Dantes when he was drowning after escaping from the castle-prison of If. Subsequently - the captain of the yacht count.
Baptistin- valet of the Count of Monte Cristo.
Ali- slave, servant of the Count of Monte Cristo, mute Nubian (with tongue cut off).

Hero Prototype

One of the prototypes of the novel's hero - Edmond Dantes - was a shoemaker from Nimes named François Picot, who was engaged to a wealthy woman. In 1807, at the denunciation of three of his envious "friends" (Lupyan, Solari and Shobar), who falsely accused him of spying for England, Pico was arrested and thrown into the Fenestrelle fortress, where he spent about 7 years. His fourth friend, Antoine Allue, not participating in the conspiracy, but knowing about it, cowardly kept silent about this meanness. Bride François, after two years of fruitless waiting, was forced to marry Lupiano.

Pico did not even know for the first two years what exactly he was imprisoned for. In the prison, Pico dug a small underground passage into the neighboring cell, where a wealthy Italian priest, Father Tory, was kept. They became friends, and Pico took care of the sick priest, who a year later, before his death, told him the secret of the treasure hidden in Milan. After the fall of imperial power in 1814, Francois Picot was released, took possession of the treasures bequeathed to him and, under a different name, appeared in Paris, where he devoted 10 years to retribution for meanness and betrayal.

Shobar was the first to be killed, but to Lupyan, his most hated villain, who stole from him not only freedom, but also love, Francois presented the most cruel revenge: he cunningly lured Lupyan's daughter into marriage with a criminal, and then betrayed him to trial and shame, which she could not bear it and died of shock. Then Pico organized the arson of a restaurant owned by Lupyan, and plunged him into poverty. Lupian's son was implicated (or falsely accused) of stealing the jewels and the boy was imprisoned, and then François stabbed Lupian himself. He was the last to poison Solari, but, unaware of Antoine Allue's knowledge, was kidnapped and killed by him.

Antoine Allue fled to England after the murder of Picot, where he confessed before his death in 1828. The dying Antoine Allue's confession forms the bulk of the French police records of the case.

Alexandre Dumas became interested in this story and transformed it into the adventures of Edmond Dantes - The Count of Monte Cristo. Dumas' novel, however, is devoid of a gloomy criminal flavor, his noble hero at first feels like an instrument of higher retribution, but at the end of the novel, sobered by the death of the innocent, he refuses revenge in favor of mercy.

Plot sloppiness

Like most of Dumas's works, the text of the novel contains a lot of negligence and inconsistent places, and sometimes historical inaccuracies.

Continuations of the novel

Alexandre Dumas did not write sequels to this novel, but many sequels are known, some of which were allegedly found in the writer's archive after his death (or are attributed to Dumas son). But judging by the style of writing and description of events, neither the father nor the son of Dumas could write such works.

Novel "The Last Payment"

One of the hoaxes was the novel The Last Payment, written as a continuation of The Count of Monte Cristo. His hero Edmond Dantes, after visiting Moscow, becomes the pursuer-avenger of the killer of the great Russian poet A. S. Pushkin, Georges-Charles Dantes, whom he considers his relative. The novel was published in Russia in 1990. It was not published again.

Plot. Edmond Dantes arrives in Moscow in the spring of 1838 with Gaide, who has already become his wife and has given birth to his son and daughter. In one of the restaurants, one of the students, having learned the name of the count, gives him a slap in the face. Soon the Count of Monte Cristo learns that he was confused with Georges Dantes. The count did not like that his name was embroiled in a scandal, and he decides to take revenge on Pushkin's killer.

It has now been proven that the novel "The Last Payment" is a very late hoax created in the USSR. Witty in conception and a spectacular plot move, it cannot in any way belong to the pen of Alexandre Dumas père, since it is written in a completely different stylistic manner and is replete with obvious anachronisms. Evidence is provided in the article by Alexander Obrizan and Andrey Krotkov "The Merry Ghosts of Literature". Most likely, the motive for this literary hoax is based on an accidental coincidence of two events: Pushkin's murderer Georges-Charles Dantes and the writer Alexandre Dumas son died almost simultaneously - in November 1895. There is no connection between these events, but they could well serve as an impetus for the idea of an imaginary continuation of The Count of Monte Cristo.

The novel "Lord of the World" (Adolf Mützelburg)

In this book, the reader will meet again with the heroes of the novel "The Count of Monte Cristo", get acquainted with new characters, visit with them the expanses of the American West, Africa and different countries of Europe.

Meanwhile, Nesvitsky, Zherkov and the officer of the retinue stood together outside the shots and looked either at this small group of people in yellow shakos, dark green jackets embroidered with cords, and blue trousers, swarming near the bridge, then at the other side, at blue hoods and groups approaching in the distance with horses that could easily be recognized as tools.
Will the bridge be set on fire or not? Who before? Will they run up and set fire to the bridge, or will the French ride up on a canister shot and kill them? These questions, with bated breath, were involuntarily asked by each of the large number of troops who stood over the bridge and, in the bright evening light, looked at the bridge and the hussars and at the other side, at the moving blue hoods with bayonets and guns.
- Oh! get the hussars! - said Nesvitsky, - no further than a canister shot now.
“In vain did he lead so many people,” said the retinue officer.
"Indeed," said Nesvitsky. - Here they would send two good fellows, all the same.
“Ah, your excellency,” Zherkov intervened, not taking his eyes off the hussars, but all with his naive manner, because of which it was impossible to guess whether what he was saying was serious or not. - Oh, your Excellency! How do you judge! Send two people, but who will give us Vladimir with a bow? And so, even if they beat you, you can imagine a squadron and get a bow yourself. Our Bogdanich knows the rules.
- Well, - said the officer of the retinue, - this is buckshot!
He pointed to the French guns, which were being removed from their limbers and hurriedly drove off.
On the French side, in those groups where there were guns, smoke appeared, another, a third, almost at the same time, and at the moment the sound of the first shot reached, a fourth appeared. Two sounds, one after the other, and a third.
- Oh, oh! gasped Nesvitsky, as if from burning pain, grabbing the arm of the retinue officer. - Look, one fell, fell, fell!
Two, I think?
“If I were a tsar, I would never fight,” said Nesvitsky, turning away.
The French guns were again hastily loaded. Infantry in blue hoods moved to the bridge at a run. Again, but at different intervals, smoke appeared, and grapeshot crackled and crackled across the bridge. But this time Nesvitsky could not see what was being done on the bridge. Thick smoke rose from the bridge. The hussars managed to set fire to the bridge, and the French batteries fired at them, no longer to interfere, but to ensure that the guns were pointed and there was someone to shoot at.
- The French managed to make three shots of grape shots before the hussars returned to the grooms. Two volleys were fired incorrectly, and the whole buckshot suffered, but the last shot hit the middle of a bunch of hussars and knocked down three.
Rostov, preoccupied with his relationship with Bogdanych, stopped on the bridge, not knowing what to do. There was no one to chop (as he always imagined a battle), and he also could not help in lighting the bridge, because he did not take with him, like other soldiers, a bundle of straw. He stood and looked around, when suddenly there was a crackling sound on the bridge like scattered nuts, and one of the hussars, who was closest to him, fell with a groan on the railing. Rostov ran to him along with the others. Again someone shouted: "Stretcher!". The hussar was picked up by four people and began to lift.
- Oooh! ... Drop it, for Christ's sake, - the wounded man shouted; but they still picked it up and laid it down.
Nikolai Rostov turned away and, as if looking for something, began to look at the distance, at the water of the Danube, at the sky, at the sun. How beautiful the sky looked, how blue, calm and deep! How bright and solemn the setting sun! How softly and glossy the water shone in the distant Danube! And even better were the distant mountains blue beyond the Danube, the monastery, the mysterious gorges, the pine forests flooded to the tops with fog ... it’s quiet, happy there ... thought Rostov. “There is so much happiness in me alone and in this sun, and here ... groans, suffering, fear, and this vagueness, this haste ... Here they are again shouting something, and again everyone ran somewhere back, and I run with them, and here she is.” , here it is, death, above me, around me ... A moment - and I will never see this sun, this water, this gorge again ”...
At that moment the sun began to hide behind the clouds; ahead of Rostov other stretchers appeared. And the fear of death and the stretcher, and the love of the sun and life - all merged into one painfully disturbing impression.
“Oh my God! He Who is there in this sky, save, forgive and protect me!” Rostov whispered to himself.
The hussars ran up to the grooms, the voices became louder and calmer, the stretcher disappeared from sight.
- What, bg "at, sniffed pog" oh? ... - the voice of Vaska Denisov shouted over his ear.
“It's all over; but I'm a coward, yes, I'm a coward," thought Rostov, and, sighing heavily, he took from the hands of the horseman his Grachik, who had put aside his leg, and began to sit down.
- What was it, buckshot? he asked Denisov.
- Yes, what a! shouted Denisov. - Well done g "worked! And g" work skveg "naya! Attack is a kind deed, g" kill in the dog, and here, chog "does not know what, they hit like a target.
And Denisov rode off to a group that had stopped not far from Rostov: the regimental commander, Nesvitsky, Zherkov and an officer of the retinue.
"However, no one seems to have noticed," Rostov thought to himself. And indeed, no one noticed anything, because everyone was familiar with the feeling that an unfired junker experienced for the first time.
- Here's a report for you, - said Zherkov, - you look, and they will make me a second lieutenant.
“Report to the prince that I lit the bridge,” the colonel said solemnly and cheerfully.
- And if they ask about the loss?
- A trifle! - boomed the colonel, - two hussars were wounded, and one on the spot, - he said with visible joy, unable to resist a happy smile, loudly chopping off beautiful word on the spot.

Pursued by a hundred thousandth French army under the command of Bonaparte, met by hostile residents, no longer trusting their allies, lacking food and forced to act outside all foreseeable conditions of war, the Russian army of thirty-five thousand, under the command of Kutuzov, hastily retreated down the Danube, stopping where it had been overtaken by the enemy, and fighting back with rearguard affairs, only as much as was necessary in order to retreat without losing burdens. There were cases under Lambach, Amstetten and Melk; but, despite the courage and steadfastness, recognized by the enemy himself, with which the Russians fought, the consequence of these deeds was only an even faster retreat. The Austrian troops, who had escaped capture at Ulm and joined Kutuzov at Braunau, now separated from the Russian army, and Kutuzov was left only to his weak, exhausted forces. It was impossible to think of defending Vienna any longer. Instead of offensive, deeply thought out, according to the laws new science- strategy, war, the plan of which was transferred to Kutuzov when he was in Vienna as an Austrian gofkriegsrat, the only, almost unattainable goal that now seemed to Kutuzov was to unite with the troops marching from Russia without destroying the army like Mack near Ulm.
On October 28, Kutuzov with an army crossed to the left bank of the Danube and stopped for the first time, putting the Danube between himself and the main French forces. On the 30th, he attacked Mortier's division on the left bank of the Danube and defeated it. In this case, trophies were taken for the first time: a banner, guns and two enemy generals. For the first time after a two-week retreat, the Russian troops stopped and, after a struggle, not only held the battlefield, but drove the French away. Despite the fact that the troops were undressed, exhausted, one-third weakened backward, wounded, killed and sick; despite the fact that on the other side of the Danube the sick and wounded were left with a letter from Kutuzov entrusting them to the philanthropy of the enemy; despite the fact that the large hospitals and houses in Krems, converted into infirmaries, could no longer accommodate all the sick and wounded, despite all this, the stop at Krems and the victory over Mortier significantly raised the spirit of the troops. The most joyful, though unfair, rumors circulated throughout the army and in the main apartment about the imaginary approach of columns from Russia, about some kind of victory won by the Austrians, and about the retreat of the frightened Bonaparte.
Prince Andrei was during the battle with the Austrian general Schmitt, who was killed in this case. A horse was wounded under him, and he himself was slightly scratched in the arm by a bullet. As a sign of the special favor of the commander in chief, he was sent with the news of this victory to the Austrian court, which was no longer in Vienna, which was threatened by French troops, but in Brunn. On the night of the battle, excited, but not tired (despite his seemingly slight build, Prince Andrei could endure physical fatigue much better than most strong people), arriving on horseback with a report from Dokhturov to Krems to Kutuzov, Prince Andrei was sent by courier to Brunn that same night. Departure by courier, in addition to awards, meant important step to the rise.
The night was dark and starry; the road was blackened between the whitening snow that had fallen the day before, on the day of the battle. Now sorting through the impressions of the past battle, now happily imagining the impression that he would make with the news of the victory, remembering the farewell to the commander-in-chief and comrades, Prince Andrei galloped in the mail cart, experiencing the feeling of a man who has been waiting for a long time and, finally, has reached the beginning of the desired happiness. As soon as he closed his eyes, the firing of guns and guns was heard in his ears, which merged with the sound of wheels and the impression of victory. Now he began to imagine that the Russians were fleeing, that he himself had been killed; but he hurriedly woke up, with happiness, as if again learning that none of this had happened, and that, on the contrary, the French had fled. He again recalled all the details of the victory, his calm courage during the battle, and, having calmed down, dozed off ... After a dark starry night, a bright, cheerful morning came. The snow was melting in the sun, the horses were galloping fast, and indifferently to the right and to the left, new diverse forests, fields, villages passed.
At one of the stations, he overtook a convoy of Russian wounded. The Russian officer who was driving the transport, lounging on the front cart, shouted something, scolding the soldier with rude words. Six or more pale, bandaged and dirty wounded were shaking along the rocky road in long German bows. Some of them spoke (he heard the Russian dialect), others ate bread, the heaviest ones silently, with meek and painful childlike participation, looked at their courier galloping past.
Prince Andrei ordered to stop and asked the soldier in what case they were wounded. “The day before yesterday on the Danube,” answered the soldier. Prince Andrei took out a purse and gave the soldier three gold coins.
“All of them,” he added, addressing the approaching officer. - Get well, guys, - he turned to the soldiers, - there is still a lot to do.
- What, adjutant, what news? the officer asked, apparently wanting to talk.
- Good ones! Forward, - he shouted to the driver and galloped on.
It was already completely dark when Prince Andrei drove into Brunn and saw himself surrounded high houses, the lights of shops, windows of houses and lanterns, beautiful carriages rustling along the pavement and all that atmosphere of a big busy city, which is always so attractive to a military man after the camp. Prince Andrei, despite the fast ride and sleepless night, approaching the palace, felt even more lively than the day before. Only the eyes shone with a feverish brilliance, and thoughts changed with extreme rapidity and clarity. Again, all the details of the battle were vividly presented to him, no longer vaguely, but definitely, in a concise presentation, which he made in his imagination to Emperor Franz. He vividly presented himself with random questions that could be made to him, and the answers that he would make to them. He believed that he would immediately be presented to the emperor. But at the large entrance of the palace an official ran out to him and, recognizing him as a courier, escorted him to another entrance.
– From the corridor to the right; there, Euer Hochgeboren, [Your Honor,] you will find the adjutant's wing on duty, - the official told him. “He takes him to the Minister of War.
The adjutant on duty, who met Prince Andrei, asked him to wait and went to the Minister of War. Five minutes later the adjutant wing returned and, leaning especially politely and letting Prince Andrei go ahead of him, led him through the corridor to the office where the Minister of War was studying. The aide-de-camp wing, by his refined courtesy, seemed to want to protect himself from the Russian adjutant's attempts at familiarity. The joyful feeling of Prince Andrei weakened significantly when he approached the door of the office of the Minister of War. He felt insulted, and the feeling of insult passed at the same instant, imperceptibly for him, into a feeling of contempt based on nothing. A resourceful mind at the same instant suggested to him the point of view from which he had the right to despise both the adjutant and the minister of war. “It must be very easy for them to win victories without smelling gunpowder!” he thought. His eyes narrowed contemptuously; he entered the office of the Minister of War with particular slowness. This feeling was even more intensified when he saw the Minister of War sitting over a large table and for the first two minutes paying no attention to the newcomer. The Minister of War lowered his bald head with gray temples between two wax candles and read, marking the papers with a pencil. He finished reading without raising his head as the door opened and footsteps were heard.
“Take this and pass it on,” said the Minister of War to his adjutant, handing over the papers and not yet paying attention to the courier.
Prince Andrei felt that either of all the affairs that occupied the Minister of War, the actions of the Kutuzov army could least of all interest him, or the Russian courier had to be made to feel this. But I don't care, he thought. The Minister of War moved the rest of the papers, smoothed their edges with edges, and raised his head. He had an intelligent and characteristic head. But at the same moment he turned to Prince Andrei, the intelligent and firm expression on the face of the Minister of War, apparently, habitually and consciously changed: on his face stopped stupid, feigned, not hiding his pretense, the smile of a man who receives one after another many petitioners .
- From General Field Marshal Kutuzov? - he asked. “Good news, I hope?” Was there a collision with Mortier? Victory? It's time!
He took the dispatch, which was in his name, and began to read it with a sad expression.
- Oh my god! My God! Schmit! he said in German. What a misfortune, what a misfortune!
Having run through the dispatch, he laid it on the table and looked at Prince Andrei, apparently thinking something.
- Oh, what a misfortune! Deal, you say, decisive? Mortier is not taken, however. (He thought.) I am very glad that you brought good news, although the death of Schmitt is a dear price for victory. His Majesty will certainly wish to see you, but not today. Thank you, take a rest. Be at the exit after the parade tomorrow. However, I will let you know.
The stupid smile that had disappeared during the conversation reappeared on the face of the Minister of War.
- Goodbye, thank you very much. Sovereign Emperor will probably wish to see you,” he repeated and bowed his head.
When Prince Andrei left the palace, he felt that all the interest and happiness brought to him by victory had now been abandoned by him and transferred into the indifferent hands of the Minister of War and the courteous adjutant. His whole frame of mind instantly changed: the battle seemed to him a long-standing, distant memory.

Prince Andrei stayed in Brunn with his acquaintance, the Russian diplomat Bilibin.
“Ah, dear prince, there is no nicer guest,” said Bilibin, going out to meet Prince Andrei. “Franz, the prince’s things in my bedroom!” - he turned to the servant who saw off Bolkonsky. - What, the herald of victory? Wonderful. And I'm sick, as you can see.
Prince Andrei, having washed and dressed, went out into the luxurious office of the diplomat and sat down to the prepared dinner. Bilibin calmly sat down by the fireplace.
Prince Andrei, not only after his journey, but also after the entire campaign, during which he was deprived of all the comforts of purity and elegance of life, experienced a pleasant feeling of relaxation among those luxurious living conditions to which he had become accustomed since childhood. In addition, after the Austrian reception, he was pleased to talk, if not in Russian (they spoke French), but with a Russian person who, he assumed, shared the general Russian disgust (now felt especially vividly) for the Austrians.
Bilibin was a man of about thirty-five, single, of the same society as Prince Andrei. They had known each other in St. Petersburg, but they got to know each other even more closely during Prince Andrei's last visit to Vienna with Kutuzov. As Prince Andrei was a young man, promising to go far in the military field, so, and even more so, Bilibin promised in the diplomatic one. He was still a young man, but no longer a young diplomat, since he began to serve at the age of sixteen, he had been in Paris, in Copenhagen, and now occupied a rather significant place in Vienna. Both the chancellor and our envoy in Vienna knew him and cherished him. He was not one of those many diplomats who are obliged to have only negative virtues, not to do famous things and speak French in order to be very good diplomats; he was one of those diplomats who love and know how to work, and, despite his laziness, he sometimes spent his nights at his desk. He worked equally well, whatever the essence of the work. He was not interested in the question “why?”, but in the question “how?”. What the diplomatic matter was, he did not care; but to draw up skillfully, aptly and gracefully a circular, memorandum or report - in this he found great pleasure. The merits of Bilibin were valued, in addition to written works, also for his art of addressing and speaking in higher spheres.
Bilibin loved conversation just as he loved work, only when the conversation could be elegantly witty. In society, he constantly waited for an opportunity to say something remarkable and entered into a conversation only under these conditions. Bilibin's conversation was constantly sprinkled with originally witty, complete phrases of common interest.
These phrases were prepared in Bilibin's internal laboratory, as if on purpose, of a portable nature, so that insignificant secular people could conveniently memorize them and transfer them from living rooms to living rooms. And indeed, les mots de Bilibine se colportaient dans les salons de Vienne, [Bilibin's reviews diverged in Viennese living rooms] and often had an impact on so-called important matters.
His thin, emaciated, yellowish face was all covered with large wrinkles, which always seemed to be as cleanly and painstakingly washed as the tips of fingers after a bath. The movements of these wrinkles constituted the main play of his physiognomy. Now his forehead was wrinkled in wide folds, his eyebrows went up, then his eyebrows went down, and large wrinkles formed on his cheeks. Deep-set, small eyes always looked directly and cheerfully.
“Well, now tell us your exploits,” he said.
Bolkonsky in the most modest way, never mentioning himself, told the case and the reception of the Minister of War.
- Ils m "ont recu avec ma nouvelle, comme un chien dans un jeu de quilles, [They accepted me with this news, as they accept a dog when it interferes with the game of skittles,] he concluded.
Bilibin grinned and loosened the folds of his skin.
- Cependant, mon cher, - he said, examining his nail from afar and picking up the skin above his left eye, - malgre la haute estime que je professe pour le Orthodox Russian army, j "avoue que votre victoire n" est pas des plus victorieuses. [However, my dear, with all due respect to the Orthodox Russian army, I believe that your victory is not the most brilliant.]
He continued the same way French, pronouncing in Russian only those words that he contemptuously wanted to emphasize.
- How? You, with all your weight, attacked the unfortunate Mortier with one division, and this Mortier is slipping between your hands? Where is the victory?
“However, speaking seriously,” answered Prince Andrei, “we can still say without boasting that this is a little better than Ulm ...
“Why didn’t you take us one, at least one marshal?”
- Because not everything is done as expected, and not as regularly as in the parade. We thought, as I told you, to go to the rear by seven o'clock in the morning, and did not arrive even at five in the evening.
"Why didn't you come at seven o'clock in the morning?" You should have come at seven o'clock in the morning, - Bilibin said smiling, - you should have come at seven o'clock in the morning.
“Why didn’t you convince Bonaparte by diplomatic means that it was better for him to leave Genoa? - Prince Andrei said in the same tone.
“I know,” Bilibin interrupted, “you think it’s very easy to take marshals while sitting on the sofa in front of the fireplace.” It's true, but still, why didn't you take it? And do not be surprised that not only the Minister of War, but also the august emperor and King Franz will not be very happy with your victory; and I, the unfortunate secretary of the Russian embassy, do not feel any need to give my Franz a taler as a token of joy and let him go with his Liebchen [darling] to the Prater ... True, there is no Prater here.
He looked directly at Prince Andrei and suddenly pulled the collected skin off his forehead.
“Now it’s my turn to ask you why, my dear,” said Bolkonsky. - I confess that I don’t understand, maybe there are diplomatic subtleties beyond my weak mind, but I don’t understand: Mack loses an entire army, Archduke Ferdinand and Archduke Karl do not give any signs of life and make mistakes after mistakes, finally, one Kutuzov wins a real victory, destroys the charme [charm] of the French, and the Minister of War is not even interested in knowing the details.
“It is from this, my dear. Voyez vous, mon cher: [You see, my dear:] hooray! for the tsar, for Rus', for the faith! Tout ca est bel et bon, [all this is fine and good,] but what do we, I say, the Austrian court, care about your victories? Bring us your good news about the victory of Archduke Charles or Ferdinand - un archiduc vaut l "autre, [one archduke is worth another,] as you know - at least over a company of Bonaparte's fire brigade, this is another matter, we will thunder into cannons. Otherwise this , as if on purpose, can only tease us. Archduke Karl does nothing, Archduke Ferdinand is covered with disgrace. You leave Vienna, you no longer defend, comme si vous nous disiez: [as if you told us:] God is with us, and God is with you, with your capital. One general whom we all loved, Schmitt: you bring him under a bullet and congratulate us on the victory! ... You must admit that it is impossible to imagine more irritating than the news that you bring. C "est comme un fait expres, comme unfait expres. [This is as if on purpose, as if on purpose.] Besides, well, if you won a brilliant victory, even if Archduke Karl won, what would change the general course of affairs? It's too late now that Vienna is occupied by French troops.
- How busy? Vienna busy?
- Not only busy, but Bonaparte is in Schönbrunn, and the count, our dear Count Vrbna, goes to him for orders.
Bolkonsky, after fatigue and the impressions of the journey, the reception, and especially after dinner, felt that he did not understand the full meaning of the words he heard.
“Count Lichtenfels was here this morning,” Bilibin continued, “and showed me a letter detailing the French parade in Vienna. Le prince Murat et tout le tremblement ... [Prince Murat and all that ...] You see that your victory is not very joyful, and that you cannot be accepted as a savior ...
“Really, it doesn’t matter to me, it doesn’t matter at all! - said Prince Andrei, beginning to understand that his news of the battle near Krems really had little importance in view of such events as the occupation of the capital of Austria. - How is Vienna taken? And what about the bridge and the famous tete de pont, [bridge fortification,] and Prince Auersperg? We had rumors that Prince Auersperg was defending Vienna,” he said.

Edmond Dantes from the ship "Pharaoh". During one of the flights, he called at the island of Elba, where he met with Napoleon Bonaparte and Marshal Bertrand (later said that with Murat), who instructs him to deliver a letter to Paris. With this, Edmond fulfills the last will of the captain of the Pharaoh, who died shortly before.

Upon arrival in Marseille, the owner of the ship, Morrel, wants to appoint Dantès as captain, and Edmond himself is going to marry a Catalan Mercedes from a nearby fishing village.

However, the accountant Danglars claims to be the captain, and her cousin Fernand also wants to marry Mercedes. Both of them and Dantes' neighbor - the envious tailor Caderousse - met in a tavern, where Danglars had a plan to inform Edmond that he was a Bonapartist agent. He writes an anonymous letter to the prosecutor, but Caderousse is against slander. Therefore, Danglars pretends to throw out a denunciation, but gives a sign to Fernand to deliver the letter to the prosecutor. Fernand plays his part in the conspiracy with vivacity.

Edmond Dantes, after several years in prison, decides to commit suicide and starts throwing food out the window. And when he is almost dying, he suddenly hears that someone is digging near his cell. Dantes begins to dig towards him and meets Abbot Faria, an Italian learned monk who is considered crazy because he declares the existence of a certain treasure.

Jail break

Edmond Dantès and Abbé Faria prepare to escape together. But before escaping, Faria has a partial paralysis seizure. Dantes stays with the abbot. Every day they communicate, the abbot teaches him the sciences and foreign languages. In addition, Faria reveals to him the secret of the treasure on the island of Montecristo.

After another seizure, the abbot dies. The castle guards sew up the dead man in a sack, intending to bury him in the evening. Dantès carries the corpse to his cell, and sews himself into a sack. Like a dead man, he is thrown into the sea, where he swims to a neighboring island. In the morning he is picked up by local smugglers. Dantes made friends with new comrades, and the captain praised him as a skilled sailor.

Montecristo Island is uninhabited and smugglers use it as a staging post. Dantes tricks, pretending to be sick, manages to stay on the island, where he finds a treasure.

Return

Dantes, having become rich, did not forget those who did him good.

He told fellow smugglers that he had received an inheritance and generously rewarded everyone. The sailor Jacopo, who saved him, he gave a big boat, the inhabitants of the village where Mercedes lived - a fishing boat.

Under the guise of the Count of Monte Cristo, Dantes enters high society. In addition, he occasionally transforms into Lord Wilmore, Abbot Busoni. For sailors, he is "Sinbad the Sailor".

The Count does not kill like an ordinary killer, he acts with cunning: as a result, Fernand commits suicide, Villefort loses his entire family and goes crazy, and Danglars is robbed by robbers with the rest of his wealth and taken prisoner. The Count of Monte Cristo did not want the death of an innocent child (the son of Villefort), so he stops taking revenge and releases Danglars ruined, but alive.

At the end of the novel, the Count and Hyde sail away on a ship, and on the island of Montecristo with its underground palace they leave their son Morrel with his beloved, Valentina de Villefort, daughter of the Count de Villefort.

Heroes of the novel

There are a large number of characters in the novel, the main ones are described below.

Edmond Dantes- main character. A sailor unjustly imprisoned. After escaping, he becomes rich, noble and famous, under the name Count of Monte Cristo.
Abbe Faria- Comrade Edmond Dantes in custody, a learned monk who discovered the secret of the treasure on the island of Monte Cristo.
Fernand Mondego- A relative of Mercedes who wants to marry her. Later becomes lieutenant general, comte de Morcert and peer of France.
Mercedes- the bride of Edmond Dantes, who later became the wife of Fernand.
- Albert de Morcer- son of Fernand and Mercedes.
Danglars- an accountant on the "Pharaoh", submitted the idea of denouncing Dantes, later becomes a baron and a wealthy banker.
- Hermina Danglars- the wife of Danglars, in the past the mistress of the royal prosecutor de Villefort, who is fond of the stock game.
- Eugenie Danglars- the daughter of the Danglars, who dreams of becoming an independent artist.
Gerard de Villefort- assistant prosecutor of Marseilles, then became the royal prosecutor of Paris.
- Eloise de Villefort- the second wife of the royal prosecutor, ready for anything for the sake of her son Edward.
- Noirtier de Villefort- father of the royal prosecutor, former Girondin and Napoleon's senator, chairman of the Bonapartist club, later a paralytic.
- Valentine de Villefort(in the original - Valenciennes) - the eldest daughter of Villefort from his first marriage, a wealthy heiress, actually a nurse with her grandfather, beloved Maximillian Morrel.
- Edward de Villefort- the young son of the royal prosecutor from his second marriage, a spoiled and cruel child.
Gaspard Caderousse- Dantes' neighbor, at first a tailor, and later an innkeeper, became an accomplice in the murder, a fugitive from hard labor.
Bertuccio- the manager of the affairs of the Count of Monte Cristo, a retired Corsican smuggler, the adoptive father of Benedetto.
Benedetto- fugitive from hard labor, illegitimate son of the royal prosecutor and Baroness Danglars
Pierre Morrel- Marseille merchant, owner of the ship "Pharaoh", benefactor of Dantes.
- Maximilian Morrel- son of Pierre Morrel, officer, protege of the Count of Monte Cristo.
Dr. d'Avrigny- the family doctor Wilforov, who was the first to suspect the terrible secret of this family.
Franz d'Epinay- the groom imposed on Valentine de Villefort, friend of Albert de Morcert, son of Baron d'Epinay, killed in a duel by Noirtier de Villefort.
Lucien Debray- Secretary of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, current lover and partner in the stock game of Baroness Danglars.
Beauchamp- journalist, friend of Albert de Morser.
Hyde- the slave of the count, the daughter of the Janine Pasha Ali-Tebelin, betrayed by Fernand.
Luigi Wampa- a noble shepherd who became the leader of a gang of robbers in the vicinity of Rome.
Jacopo- a sailor from the smugglers' ship, saved Dantes when he was drowning after escaping from the Chateau d'If.

The success of the novel

The success of the novel "Monte Cristo" surpassed all previous works of the writer. It was at that time one of the biggest successes of any novel in France. Based on the novel, performances are staged in theaters. Earnings allow Alexandre Dumas to buy a villa in addition to the house. He calls the chic palace Monte Cristo, and he himself begins to lead a life worthy of his hero.

Hero Prototype

One of the prototypes of the hero of the novel was a certain Francois Picot, who, according to a denunciation-joke of his friends, ended up in prison, where he spent about 7 years. In prison, he cared for a sick priest who, before his death, told the secret of a hidden treasure. After the release of Francois Picot found out the cause of his misadventures and began to take revenge, killing all the informers, except for one. The last scammer, Antoine Allu, guessed everything and killed Francois Picot himself, after which he fled to England. In 1828, Antoine Allue confessed before his death, and the priest wrote down the story, which soon became public.

Alexandre Dumas was interested in this story, but he did not like the trivial killer. Therefore, the Count of Monte Cristo did no harm to anyone with his own hands, but only sent misfortunes to enemies.

Plot sloppiness

As in most of the works of Dumas, the text of the novel contains a lot of negligence and inconsistent places. For example, in the first chapter, Dantes assures Morrel that he has no complaints about Danglars as an accountant, he is ready to continue to serve with him. On the other hand, in prison, in a conversation with Faria, Dantes reports that he discovered some fraud in Danglars' accounts. In the same conversation with Faria, Dantes clearly recalls that on the table of the conspirators in the gazebo, he noticed a pen, ink and paper. But if you re-read the scene in the gazebo, it becomes clear that all of the above Danglars demanded after the departure of Dantes.

Another example: in chapter XIII, Albert informs Franz that in college he "was very strong in Greek." And later, visiting the count, he confesses to Monte Cristo that he does not understand a word of Greek. In both cases, there was absolutely no reason for Albert to lie.

Also in prison, Dantes learns that the abbot's treasure is two million scudos, which is equal to seventeen million francs. But at the end of the book, he tells Maximillian about the hundred millionth fortune. It can be assumed that Dantes increased his capital during this time, but it is very difficult to make from seventeen to one hundred million, even in ten years. And considering that in each country he bought himself a mansion (as in France) and spent about six million a year, such an increase in capital seems impossible. Although, perhaps, the abbot did not fully know about the size of the treasure

drugs

The Count of Monte Cristo contains information about the effects of hashish - the protagonist of the novel is a connoisseur and lover of this rare drug in those years. The text mentions that he uses Egyptian dawamesk and homemade pills of hashish and opium mixed in equal proportions (as sleeping pills). The action of dawames is described in detail in Chapter X of Volume II (“Sinbad the Sailor”): here the Count of Monte Cristo treats the young Baron Franz d’Epinay with it, through whom he expects to enter the high society of Paris. After a while, Franz feels “that a strange transformation is happening to him. All the fatigue that had accumulated during the day, all the anxiety caused by the events of the evening, disappeared, as in that first minute of rest, when you are still so awake that you feel the approach of sleep. His body acquired an incorporeal lightness, his thoughts brightened inexpressibly, his feelings became doubly aggravated.. Soon he falls into a oneiroid hallucinosis of a romantic-erotic content, during which he gradually falls asleep.

The second volume of the novel was written by Alexandre Dumas in 1844. It reflected the author's personal impressions of visiting the Assassins' Club, where he had the opportunity to try davamesque. According to contemporaries, Dumas ate this drug very willingly, and after drinking he became extremely talkative. During the existence of the "Club" he wrote many famous works- in particular, all three novels about musketeers.

Continuations of the novel

Alexandre Dumas did not write sequels to the novel, however, many sequels are known, some of which were allegedly found in the writer's archive after his death (or attributed to Dumas son). But judging by the style of writing and description of events, neither the father nor the son of Dumas could write such works.

The film "Son of Monte Cristo" (1940, USA)

Novel en:The Stars" Tennis Balls, written in the year by Stephen Fry, uses motifs from the novel The Count of Monte Cristo.

On March 31, the German rock metal band Vanden Plas released the album "Christ 0", using a modernized version of the story of the Count of Monte Cristo.

Screen adaptations

The novel has been made into many films.

The Count of Monte Cristo - , USA , starring - Robert Donat
Count of Monte Cristo - Italy-France starring Jean Mare
Count of Monte Cristo - Italy-France starring Louis Jourdan
The Count of Monte Cristo - , TV movie, UK-Italy, starring Richard Chamberlain
Prisoner of If Castle - , USSR-France, starring - Viktor Avilov, Mikhail Boyarsky.
The Count of Monte Cristo - TV series, Germany-France-Italy, starring Gerard Depardieu, Ornella Muti.
The Count of Monte Cristo - USA-UK-Ireland starring James Caviezel.
Favorsky -, TV series, Russia, starring - Ilya Shakunov, Alexander Lykov, Valery Degtyar, Andrey Zibrov, Nodar Mgaloblishvili, Tara Amirkhanova. (The plot of Dumas' novel is translated into modern times- USSR / Russia / Baltic states / Armenia of the period 1982-1999).
"Count Krestovsky" (2005, a television series was shot by Russian filmmakers, where the story of the Count of Monte Cristo in the USSR of the 1980s was beaten)
"Monte Cristo" -, Argentina, television series.
"Monte Cristo" -, Russia, television series.
"Gankutsuou" - "The Count of Monte Cristo" (Ruler of the Cave), - - Japanese anime film, the motives of the plot of the novel are also used.

Theatrical performances

Links

The Count of Monte Cristo, parts 1-3 in the library of Maxim Moshkov
Count of Monte Cristo, parts 4-6 in Maxim Moshkov's library
Island of Monte Cristo - All about the Count of Monte Cristo.
Wikisource's Le Comte de Monte-Cristo - original version of the novel (on

This article tells about an adventure novel that was created in 1844-1845. The topic of our today's story is the characteristics of its heroes and summary. "The Count of Monte Cristo" is a work authored by A. Dumas (father). This is a recognized classic. French literature. Many of his works, including "The Count of Monte Cristo", the reviews from readers cause the most positive. First, we will acquaint you with a summary, and then move on to characterizing the heroes of the work of interest to us.

Imagine the protagonist of the novel that (father) wrote. He is Dantes, a Marseille sailor from the ship "Pharaoh". He went during the next flight to the Elba, where he met with Marshal Bertrand, who instructed Edmond (this is the name of the main character) to deliver a letter to Paris. Dantes also saw Napoleon Bonaparte here. Edmond agreed to deliver the letter, thus fulfilling the last will of the captain of the ship "Pharaoh", who died shortly before. Morrel, the owner of the ship, upon arrival in Marseilles decided to appoint Dantès in charge.

Denunciation of Edmond

Edmond was about to marry Mercedes, a Catholic from a nearby village. However, Fernand, her cousin, also wants to connect his fate with this girl. Accountant Danglars (Edmond suspects him of deceit) begins to fear for his position. Danglars, Fernand and the tailor Caderousse, the envious neighbor of Dantes, meet in a tavern. Danglars has a plan to inform Dantes that he is supposedly a Bonapartist subordinate. To do this, he writes an anonymous letter to the prosecutor, but Caderousse is against this plan. Therefore, Danglars has to pretend that he destroyed the denunciation. He tells Fernand to deliver a letter to the prosecutor, which is done by cousin Mercedes.

Arrest and imprisonment in the castle

During the wedding with the chosen one, Dantes is arrested. Caderousse understands everything, but is silent, because he is afraid that they will consider him to be involved in a political affair. The protagonist is taken to Villefort, an assistant to the royal prosecutor, who tries to deal honestly. He is about to release the innocent, but learns that Dantes was supposed to give the letter to his father Noirtier, a Bonapartist. Villefort is aware that if this fact becomes known, his career may come to an end. Therefore, he decides in this situation to sacrifice Edmond. Villefort burns the letter, and sends Edmond without trial or investigation to the Chateau d'If, in conclusion. He himself hurries to Paris in order to warn of the impending coup of King Louis XVIII.

Fateful meeting

We continue to describe the summary. The Count of Monte Cristo is a very interesting read. Events keep in suspense until the very end. Alexandre Dumas (father) goes on to talk about how, after a few years in prison, Dantès decides to commit suicide. He starts throwing food out the window. However, a few days later, when he was almost dying, Edmond suddenly heard someone digging the ground near his cell. The protagonist begins to dig a tunnel from his side.

He meets a clergyman from Italy, Abbe Faria. The abbot is considered crazy, as he keeps saying that there is a multi-million dollar treasure, and only he knows where it is. The personality of Faria makes a huge impression on the protagonist. This already elderly man is full of hope and love for life. He works all the time: writes scientific works, even while imprisoned, makes tools and steadily plots an escape. Faria, after listening to the story of the protagonist, restores the course of events. He reveals to Dantes the perpetrators and the reason for his imprisonment. Edmond takes an oath to take revenge on his enemies. He asks Faria to become his mentor in life and teacher in the sciences. We will not dwell on this in detail, describing the summary. "The Count of Monte Cristo" is a voluminous work, so we can only talk about the main events.

Edmond learns about the treasure

The abbot and Edmond prepare to escape together. When everything is ready, Faria suddenly has a seizure. The right side of the abbot's body is paralyzed. The protagonist refuses to escape alone and decides to stay with Faria. They communicate, the abbot teaches Edmond foreign languages and sciences. In addition, he reveals to the protagonist the secret of the treasure, which is buried on about. Monte Cristo. Faria learned about him when he served as a librarian for one of the descendants of Cardinal Spada, who hid his wealth from Pope Alexander VI and Caesar Borgia, his son.

Escape of Edmond, meeting with smugglers

The abbot dies after another seizure. When preparing to bury the dead man in the evening, the guards sew his body into a sack. Dantes, who came to say goodbye to the deceased, is illuminated by an idea. Edmond Dantes decides to transfer the body of the abbot to his cell, while he himself, having ripped and sewn up the bag with the help of tools made by Fabia, takes his place. The main character is thrown into the sea like a dead man. With difficulty, Edmond gets out of the bag. He manages to swim to a neighboring island. Thus, the protagonist leaves the castle of If. Local smugglers pick it up in the morning. Dantes meets new comrades. He was praised as a skilled sailor by their captain. Dantes, once free, learns that he spent 14 years in prison.

Edmond finds a treasure, gifts smugglers

No one lives on the island of Monte Cristo. It is used as a staging post by smugglers from a work by Alexandre Dumas ("The Count of Monte Cristo"). Edmond pretends to be sick and with the help of this trick remains on the island, where he finds a buried treasure. Having become rich, the main character did not forget those who were kind to him. He told his fellow smugglers that he had received an inheritance and rewarded them all generously.

The main character starts an investigation

After that, Edmond decides to start his own investigation in order to find out what happened after his arrest with his fiancée, father, friends and enemies. He visits Caderousse under the guise of a priest who allegedly fulfills the last will of Dantes and bequeaths the diamond to his friends: Mercedes, Danglars, Fernand and Caderousse. The latter holds a tavern. At the sight of a diamond, greed overwhelms him, and he forgets about caution. Caderousse tells Edmond the truth about his arrest, as well as what happened after that. Dantes' father fell into despair and died of starvation, Mercedes was also very sad.

Morrel tried to fight for Dantès to be released and supported his father. Caderousse also said that Mercedes had married Fernand, and Monsieur Morrel, Edmond's former master, was practically ruined. Fernand and Danglars are now rich. They belong to high society and must be happy. Danglars became a millionaire banker, has the title of baron. Fernand is now a general, peer of France, comte de Morcer.

Saving Morrel

Edmond returns to Marseille. Here he learns that Morrel is really on the verge of ruin. He only hopes for the return of the "Pharaoh" with cargo, the ship on which Dantes once sailed. However, news arrives that the ship has sunk in a storm (although the captain and crew miraculously escaped). Dantes learns about all this when he comes to the armator under the guise of agent Morrel. The protagonist on behalf of gives the last reprieve to Morrel. It is already coming to an end, and he cannot pay off. Morrel, in order to avoid shame, decides to commit suicide. At the last moment, however, redeemed bills are brought, and the new "Pharaoh" enters the port. Morrel and his family are saved. Dantes watches them from afar. Out of gratitude, he closed Morrel's account, and now he wants to take revenge on his enemies.

The mysterious Count of Monte Cristo

9 years pass. Continues to describe further developments Alexandr Duma. The Count of Monte Cristo, eccentric and mysterious, succeeds Edmond Dantes. This is just one of the images that the main character created. He is also known to some as Abbot Busoni, Lord Wilmore, and others. The Italian smugglers and robbers whom he was able to unite and subjugate, like many travelers and sailors, know the main character under the name Sinbad the Sailor. He has already managed to visit many parts of the world over the past years and significantly expand his education. The Count of Monte Cristo, in addition, learned to skillfully manipulate people. He is the owner of a fast boat. And in the caves located on the island of Monte Cristo, he has a hidden underground palace. Here he receives travelers.

Dantes, under the guise of a count, is included in the highest French society. He intrigues and delights him with an unusual way of life and wealth. The main character has a mute servant Ali, about whom he says that if he disobeys him, he will be killed. The count's affairs are managed by Giovanni Bertuccio, a Corsican smuggler who has his own accounts with Villefort. Meanwhile, Villefort had already become the royal prosecutor of Paris. The count, in addition, contains Gaide, a slave, whom she treats first as a daughter. This is the daughter of Pasha Ali-Tebelin, whom Fernand treacherously killed.

Carrying out a plan of revenge

The protagonist begins to gradually implement his plan of revenge. He believes that the death of enemies is not enough payment for the suffering caused. The count considers himself as an instrument of Providence, an instrument of justice. He strikes subtly at the victims. As a result, Fernand is disgraced, his wife and son left him, and ultimately he commits suicide. Villefort goes mad, losing his entire family. Danglars is ruined and flees from France. The robbers who obey Monte Cristo take him prisoner in Italy. They rob Danglars of the last remnants of his fortune. The Count, however, was already tired of revenge. He realized that just retribution for criminals caused irreparable damage to many innocent people. A heavy burden on the conscience of the protagonist lay the consciousness of this. Therefore, he lets Danglars go free, even allowing him to take 50 thousand francs with him.

Final events

So we come to the finale, describing the summary. The Count of Monte Cristo ends with the hero, who realizes that he loves Gayde not with his father's love, sails away with her on a ship. He leaves the island of Monte Cristo with all its wealth as a gift to Maximilian, son of Morrel, and also to Valentine de Villefort, his beloved, the daughter of a prosecutor.

The Count of Monte Cristo (Edmond Dantes)

Monte Cristo (aka E. Dantes) is the main character of the work written by A. Dumas (father). The history of its real prototype was drawn by the author from the archives of the Paris police. Having become a victim of a prank, the shoemaker was imprisoned in the castle. Here he courted a prisoner, a prelate who bequeathed him a large fortune. The shoemaker, finding himself at large, took revenge on his enemies, but he himself died at the hands of the last of the survivors. The name Monte Cristo was inspired by the name of a small island located near the Elba.

It should be noted that by the end of the work, when the perpetrators are mercilessly punished, neither Monte Cristo himself nor the reader experiences the necessary satisfaction (with the exception, perhaps, of the youngest reader, for whom this image is designed). The protagonist of the novel transforms so much that he acts unrecognized among people who knew him before. The motive of inner transformation is the structuring motive of his character. One can only speak of an implicit, dotted "shine" through the image of the prudent and cold avenger of Monte Cristo of Edmond's direct disinterestedness. It can be combined typologically with such characters as Joseph the Beautiful and Odysseus, who were met by relatives after many years and were not recognized by them. Mercedes, unlike Penelope, could not wait for her lover, she decided that he was dead. And unlike Jacob, the old father could not bear the separation from his son. The hero of Dumas is reborn, not grown up. The credulity and simplicity of Edmond are transformed into romantic mystery, demonism. In addition, the way of his being changes: Edmond lives a natural life, and the Count of Monte Cristo, whose character is described in some detail in the novel, manages the lives of other people without having his own.

Danglars

This is an accountant who served on the Pharaoh. This person is envious. It was he who initiated the denunciation of Dantes. It can be said that Baron Danglars is the most fallen hero of all in the novel, but he did not feel remorse. He managed to leave Marseille. Danglars was engaged in deliveries for the French army during the Spanish war and got rich on this. The hero's only love was money. That is why Monte Cristo used this weakness of his as revenge. Robber Luigi Vampa, a friend of the count, kidnapped Danglars at his request and began to starve him, offering the hero to buy food for millions. When Danglars had no money left at all, the count decided to let him go. Thus, this character was the first of those who were spared by the protagonist. However, he was the last one who deserved to be forgiven by the Count of Monte Cristo. The book, written by Alexandre Dumas, makes you think about the reasons for this.

Gaspard Caderousse

Who was the neighbor of the protagonist and his father. Gaspard is one of the participants in the denunciation of Dantes. But he can be justified by the fact that he was drunk and therefore did not take the writing of the denunciation seriously, believing that it was a joke. Later, the hero became the owner of the tavern. Greed forced him to kill a man and become a criminal. Edmond several times in different guises gave Caderousse a chance to improve. In fact, he did not even take revenge on him, but only gave him the right to choose, which was a test for him. The Count of Monte Cristo, as a revenge, gave Caderousse a choice - to leave the criminal past or continue the wicked path. He could not refuse the profit and decided to rob the count, but fell from Benedetto, his "friend", with whom he committed the robbery.

Gerard de Villefort

This hero of the work is an assistant to the royal prosecutor. He put Edmond in prison only because he had a letter from Napoleon, which was addressed to the father of Villefort. He then rose to the position of Crown Prosecutor. The past of this hero was not flawless, which was used for revenge by the Count of Monte Cristo. Gerard had an affair with Madame Danglars. She gave birth to an unwanted child. Villefort buried it in the garden of a house in Auteuil. Monte Cristo first bought this house. Then, inviting the light of Paris, he showed the audience a re-enactment of the night in which the child was buried alive. Benedetto, with his help, became a defendant, and it turned out that he was the son of Villefort. Gerard's wife turned out to be a poisoner. All this led to the fact that Villefort went mad.

Fernand Mondego

This hero is a fisherman, Mercedes' cousin. He was in love with her, so he decided to betray Edmond. After that, Fernand was recruited. He managed to rise to the rank of general, and also receive the title of count. When Greece rebelled against Turkey, Ferdinand betrayed Ali-Tibelinus, pasha of Janina. Monte Cristo's revenge was sophisticated. He announced the circumstances under which Ali-Tibelin died. This led to the disdain of Albert and Mercedes. Fernand's story ended with a shot in the temple.

Abbe Faria

The novel "The Count of Monte Cristo" introduces us to another interesting character. This is an Italian priest who became Edmond's second father. He was in the Chateau d'If as his cellmate. Faria is a sage who taught Dantes everything. Everyone thought that he was crazy, because he offered treasures for his freedom. And only Edmond found out that these treasures actually existed.

Pierre Morrel

Of course, Morrel is a positive hero in the work "The Count of Monte Cristo". Pierre (that was his name) is Edmond's best friend, the owner of the Pharaoh ship. Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo) portrayed him as the noblest man. When Dantes was arrested, he went several times to Villefort to plead for him. When Morrel had no money to pay off his debts, he was ready to wash away the shame with his blood. However, Dantes saved him. Pierre was sure that he should thank Edmond for saving his honor, although he appeared to him under the guise of an agent of a banking house.

So, you met the main characters of the novel. The Count of Monte Cristo is a book worth reading. It will be of particular interest to young readers. Many of them are simply delighted with the work of Alexandre Dumas - "The Count of Monte Cristo". This novel is not in vain known to the whole world.

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