He was a rival for the hand of Mercedes, and to get Dantes out of the way he helped set him up by sending a letter of accusation to the authorities, based on a brief visit he was asked to make to the island of Elba, where Napoleon was exiled. The Morcerf Family Count de Morcerf (Fernand Mondego)įernand Mondego began life humbly in the fishing village where Dantes lived. She becomes the target of her stepmother, Mme de Villefort, who seeks to poison her so that her own son, Edward, might eventually benefit from her inherited fortune. de Villefort from his first marriage, Valentine has fallen in love with Maximilian Morrel. Nevertheless, he manages to protect Valentine effectively from the machinations of her parents. M.Noirtier later has a stroke and is able to only communicate by blinking. M.Noirtier’s past provides M.de Villefort his motive for sending Edmond Dantes to Prison, since Dantes carries a letter from Napolean that could incriminate Villefort’s father. He killed Franz d’Epinay’s father, General Flavien de Quesnal, after he refused to join the club.
M.Noirtier de Villefortįather to M.de Villefort, he is an anti-royalist who was once president in a secret society, the Bonapartist Club. To do this she begins a campaign of poisoning which leads to disaster. While she outwardly promotes Valentine’s interests, she secretly hopes to obtain Valentine’s money, inherited from her grandparents and mother, for her own son Edward.
She is step-mother to Valentine from her husband’s first marriage, and mother to Edward. Dantes later uses this knowledge to help ruin Villefort. But the child was save by Bertuccio, a servant to Edmond Dantes (when he adopts the title of the Count of Monte Cristo). To hide their affair, Villefort buried the child alive. He once had an affair with Mme Danglars, which resulted in the birth of Benedetto. Villefort is eventually promoted as the king’s chief attorney. Villefort is a chief prosecutor, and to protect his father he sends Edmond Dantes to prison for a crime he knows he did not commit. When Dantes returns from the isle of Elba where Napoleon is exiled, he bears a letter that could implicate Villefort’s father. Villefort’s father, M.Noirtier, is a fervent anti-royalist. This fact will contribute to the mode of retribution Edmond exacts on M.Danglars. When Edmond goes to prison Louis starves to death. When Dantes escapes, he uses the fortune to adopt a new identity – the Count of Monte Cristo – and to seek a slow and complete revenge on the men who sent him to prison. During that time he befriends another prisoner, Abbe Faria, who educates him and tells him the location of a massive fortune. Dantes spends the next 14 years in prison. de Villefort, a magistrate who sends him to prison to protect his own father from a secret Dantes might reveal. Danglars, who is a profession rival, Fernand Mondego, who is a romantic rival, and M. The following characters are essential to the story: The Dantes Family Edmond DantesĮdmond Dantes is framed by three men – M. Some of them can be seen in the accompanying Character Map, while many are too minor to appear there either. I have chosen not to write an outline for these characters, however brief it might have been. The same can be said for M de Château-Renaud, another friend of Albert. Some characters like Baron Franz d’Epinay, appear to be rather important in sections of the book (especially in the sequence in Italy where Albert de Morcerf first meets the Count of Monte Cristo) but have very little import to the story, apart from being Albert’s friend. Many only make a brief appearance, like the telegraph operator who unwittingly helps the Count set M.Danglars up to lose money, while others like Madeleine Caderousse, wife of the villain Gaspars Caderousse, are a minor character attached to another minor character. There are many characters in Dumas’s novel which spans over a thousand pages. The Count of Monte Cristo Essential Characters
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