As a young girl, I was enchanted with Alexandre Dumas' Le Comte de Monte Cristo. The Count of Monte Cristo remains one of the few works that I read in French. It is, basically, a tale of revenge.
Revenge is a dish best served cold, some say. Though the story is old, the relish remains fresh. Read the story to enjoy the recipe - the link also provides an audio version. I'm sure you will enjoy it as the tale has fared well across time, even made and remade as movies and TV series across the world.
At his happiest moment in life, a young man is thrown into prison by a jealous rival. And that is it, in a nutshell. Of course, there is the second course - the hero emerges from the depths of a dungeon to avenge himself bitterly and mercilessly. Jealousy and revenge - as old as mankind.
But it was not all taken from the darkness. According to another account, there was a scientist Who Inspired the Count of Monte Cristo.
Revenge is a dish best served cold, some say. Though the story is old, the relish remains fresh. Read the story to enjoy the recipe - the link also provides an audio version. I'm sure you will enjoy it as the tale has fared well across time, even made and remade as movies and TV series across the world.
The story of Edmond Dantès is inspired by the real life story of François Piçaud, an innocent man denounced as a spy and jailed for seven years. Similar to Edmond, a prison friendship led him to acquiring a great fortune, and upon his release, he sought revenge on those who'd accused him. In Alexandre Dumas's fictionalized version, the innocent Edmond escapes from prison, finds a fortune his dying friend tells him about, feigns the identity of a wealthy count, and sets about the business of a thousand pages worth of revenge.
How Revenge and The Count of Monte Cristo Capture Our Eternal Need for Closure
Apparently, that's not the only connection with historical incidents and people:
Dumas’ appetite for action-packed tales led him to the 1838 publication Memoirs from the Archives of Paris Police, a collection of true crime stories arranged by author Jacques Peuchet. Among the accounts featured was the particularly macabre tale of Nîmes-born shoemaker Pierre Picaud, who was framed for treason by three men who lusted after his wealthy fiancée.
There is also the fact that the novel has inspired all sorts of research. One such explores the Geographies of Vengeance: Orientalism in Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo.
And another that examines Cerebrovascular disease in The Count of Monte Cristo. If that is all related to the past, we also have an article about What the Count of Monte Cristo Can Teach Us About Cybersecurity.
So I do hope you will read the story and perhaps watch the upcoming New Version of ‘Count of Monte Cristo’.
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| Not far from port of Marseille (France) this castle built in an island became famous because of Alexandre Dumas's novel "Le Comte de Monte-Cristo. Philippe Alès [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)] |
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