The Count of Monte Cristo An Adventure Novel Written in the Era of the Bourbon Restoration Until the Reign of Louis Philippe of France

On the day Napoleon fled Elba in 1815, Edmund Dantes sailed the Pharaoh into the marseilles. His captain Leclere (Leclere) died on the channel. Owner Morrel will appoint Dantes as the next captain. Before his death, Leclerc commissioned Dantes to send a parcel to General Bertrand (in exile with Napoleon) and a letter from Elba to an unknown person in Paris. Dantes' colleague Danglars was jealous of Dantès's rapid promotion, and because of the disagreement between the two, he worried about his own job after Dantès was promoted. On the eve of the wedding of Dantes and his Catalan fiancée Mercedes, Danglars met Mercedes' cousin Fernand Mondego in a cabaret performance, who was also her love rival, and the two conspired to remain anonymous Way to condemn Dantes, accusing him of being a traitor to Bonapartism. Danglars and Mondecourt set a trap for Dantes. Caderousse, Dantès' neighbor, attended the meeting; he was also very jealous of Dantès, and although he opposed the conspiracy, he was too drunk to stop it. At the wedding banquet the next day, Dantes was arrested, and the cowardly Caderousse remained silent, afraid of being accused of Bonapartism. The deputy prosecutor of Marseille Villefort discovered that this letter from Elba was addressed to his own father, Noirtier, a Bonapartist who knew it would ruin his own political career , So he destroyed the letter. In order to silence Dantes, he sentenced him to life imprisonment without trial, and refused all the calls made by Morrel for his release during the hundred days and once the king resumed his rule in France.