...s financial situation as ell as his on ill be greatly ameliorated. In addition, Dantes has plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes ho has aaited his return from sea ith great anxiety and love. Dantes ill not get the chance to realize his bright future, hoever. His success has earned him three conspiring enemies. They rite a letter falsely incriminating him in a Bonapartist plot the royalists are currently in poer. These three enemies are Danglars, Fernand Mondego, and Caderousse. Danglars ill become captain of the Pharaon once Dantes is removed, Fernand aspires to in Mercedes love, and Caderousse is a jealous neighbor of Dantes. Perhaps the conspiracy ould not have been so successful had not the denunciation fallen into the hands of the public prosecutor, Monsieur de Villefort. This man has nothing personal against Dantes, hoever, he has Dantes incarcerated as a most dangerous criminal. His policy against Bonapartists must be extremely vigilant in order to counter the reputation of his father. His father is a knon Bonapartist, and Villefort is paranoid that this fact shall hurt his career among the ruling royalists. Thus, he thros Dantes, an innocent man, into the Chateau DIf. Political regimes change, yet Dantes is forgotten. M. Morrel attempts to have him freed, yet to no avail. In prison, Dantes loses hope and decides to starve himself to death. Thankfully, the prisoner in the next cell as building a tunnel to escape. Miscalculations bring the Abbe Faria, to Dantes cell instead of freedom. The to become friends, and the learned Abbe teaches Dantes all his vast knoledge of literature, the sciences and languages. The Abbe also reveals to Dantes the location of an immense treasure on the Isle of Monte Cristo. He hopes Dantes ill retrieve this treasure should he escape. hen the Abbe dies, Dantes replaces his body ith the Abbes. The Abbes body bag is thron into the sea. Dantes is free at last, after fourteen years of imprisonment. Dantes is saved from the sea by Italian smugglers. Dantes only reason for living no is to have vengeance upon those ho thre his life aay. He becomes a smuggler for a time, and finally has the opportunity to retrieve the treasure spoken of by Abbe Faria. He shall use this treasure to calculate the donfall of the four men ho imprisoned him. Dantes, no the Count of Monte Cristo, shall calculate his revenge over the next10 years. He has already aited fourteen years, thus he has learned the virtue of patience. These men deserve to suffer. Their donfall shall be all the more destructive if his revenge is not brash, but calculated. Over the next ten years, Monte Cristo conditions himself, and learns of all the details of his enemies past. He also amasses a circle of servants ho are forever indebted to him. Using his immense fortune he buys back freedom of men such as Peppino. Luigi Vampa, the great Italian bandit is also indebted to the Count. These men oe the Count their lives, and ill prove indispensable to the Counts plans for revenge. Before exacting revenge, hoever, the Count reards the one family that remained true to him. He saves the Morrel firm from financial disaster by providing a diamond and a ne ship to the family anonymously. The count is no ready to exact revenge. He understands his duty to act as divine justice. hen the Count is ready to enter Parisien society, and to destroy his enemies, he does so through contact ith Albert de Morcerf. This is the son of Count de Morcerf, a ne title given to the very same Fernand Mondego ho conspired against Dantes. By inning Alberts trust he is introduced to all his former enemies, including Danglars, Count de Morcerf, and Monsieur de Villefort. These men are at the center of social and political life in Paris and are very rich. Monte Cristos arrival in Paris causes a great stir, for his fortune is immense. None of his enemies recognize him hoever. In fact, they are all eager to associate ith this great man. Mercedes, no the Countess de Morcerf, recognizes him, yet she does not reveal his identity to anyone. The Count of Monte Cristo also disguises himself as an Abbe and returns to find Caderousse still a poor man. He gives Caderousse a diamond, yet he knos this shall not bring Caderousse happiness. Caderousses greed is far too great. The diamond is part of Caderousses slo punishment. First, Caderousse kills a jeeler, his ife, and is then thron into prison. The Count, disguised as a Lord ilmore, later helps Caderousse escape from prison. Caderousse then attempts to rob the count, still not knoing that it is Dantes. During this robbery attempt, Caderousse is murdered by his accomplice, Benedetto. As Caderousse is dying, the Count hispers his identity in Caderousses ear. Caderousse then cries out to God. Fernand Mondego became a military hero and had married Mercedes ho had given up hope to ever see Dantes again. Mercedes as unaare of the treachery of her husband. They have a fortune, and exist in Parisien society as the Count and Countess de Morcerf. The Count destroys Morcerf by revealing his military treachery to all of Parisien society. Monte Cristo had bought Haydee as a slave. This girl as once the daughter of Ali Pasha ho as betrayed by Morcerf. She testifies that the Count sold her into slavery. Her father had been the Count de Morcerfs benefactor. Morcerf had killed her father, surrendered her fathers Greek City to the Turks, and sold his ife and daughter into slavery. hen this nes is revealed to Paris, the Count de Morcerf is thus ruined. His ife and son flee, and he shoots himself. Monsieur de Villefort had married tice. He has one daughter by his first ife and a son by his second ife. Valentine is his daughter. The Count destroys de Villefort by introducing Andrea Calvacanti into society. Benedetto, alias Calvacanti, is the son of Monsieur de Villefort and Madame Danglars. Long ago, Villefort had attempted to bury the neborn baby alive, but Bertuccio, no Monte Cristos servant had dug the baby up and saved it. Villeforts crime is revealed in a court of la, since Calvacanti is on trial as an escaped convict. Villefort is thus destroyed. His ife as treacherous as he had also poisoned his entire family. Her motive as to gain a fortune for her son. The Count hoever, had saved Valentine, since Maximilien Morrel, the son of M. Morrel as in love ith her. Villefort goes insane. Danglars had become a rich banker. He has a ife and daughter. His ife is of noble birth, yet hen Danglars married her, her repute as a oman as suspect. The Count destroys Danglars by opening credit ith him for six million francs. Right hen Danglars needs this money, the Count also takes a receipt for five million francs from him to cash. Danglars can no longer uphold his firm. He follos Danglars to Italy, once Danglars flees Paris. Danglars has been alienated from his ife for years, and his daughter runs off, as a result of a failed marriage contract to Andrea Calvacanti. Monte Cristo had also arranged this failed enterprise....
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