the Count of Assembles-Cristo is a Romance of Alexandre Dumas, written with the collaboration of Auguste Maquet, young professor of the Charlemegne college, completed in 1844. It is about one of the most known works of the writer, with the Three Musketeers, as much in France that abroad.

It was initially published in serial in the Newspaper of the debates from August 28th to November 26th, 1844 (1st part), then from June 20th, 1845 to January 15th, 1846 (2nd part)

Weave work

At the beginning of the reign of Louis XVIII, Edmond Dantès, sailor, employed on the boat " Pharaon" is marked wrongly of Bonapartism and locked up in the Château of Yew, on the island of the same name, with broad of Marseilles. After fourteen years, it succeeds in escaping and seizes the treasure from the island Assembles-Cristo , of which the site was revealed to him by a companion of captivity, the Abbé Faria. Become rich and powerful, he undertakes, under the name of count of Assembles-Cristo , to be avenged for those which showed it or profited directly from its imprisonment to rise in the company…

The novel

the Count of Assembles-Cristo is one of principal works of Alexandre Dumas, with the saga of the Three Musketeers . It is before all the history of a revenge, méticuleusement carried out and lengthily elaborate. It is also the advance of a man without stories, Edmond Dantès, which will become in the French literature, the prototype of the avenger.

Like any work of fiction, the reader can use several keys of reading. The novel poses the key question of the evil and justice: does the man has to you it right to replace quiet God to apply the law of retaliation or have to forgive? The advance of the hero is supported by the talents of playwright of Dumas who proceeds by a succession of fast scenes, together with dialogs surprisingly modern. The account fits in a realistic desciption and denouncer of France louis-philipparde.

Principal characters

  • Edmond Dantès/Count of Assembles-Cristo
  • Fernand/Count de Morcerf
  • Mercedes, been engaged of Edmond, then wife of Morcerf
  • Danglars, baron and banking
  • Villefort, substitute, then public prosecutor
  • the abbot Faria, prisoner with the Castle of Yew
  • Albert de Morcerf, wire of Mercedes
  • Caderousse
  • Haydée, maidservant of the Count of Assembles-Cristo

Quotations

  • “Thus, the majority of the ill deeds of the men came ahead of of them, disguised in the specious form of the need; then, the ill deed made in one moment of exaltation, fear, of is delirious, one sees that one could have passed near it of avoiding it. The means that it had been good to employ, which one did not see, blind that one was, presents itself in your eyes easy and simple; you said yourselves: how didn't I do this instead of doing that? ”

  • “Robespierre, place Louis XVI on his scaffold; Napoleon, Vendôme place, on its column; only one made equality which lowers, and the other of the equality which raises; one brought back the kings to the level of the guillotine, the other raised the people on the level of the throne. ”
  • “What death? A degree more in the calm one and two perhaps in silence. ”
  • “There are virtues whose exaggeration would be a crime. ”
  • “Foolish, the day when I had solved to avenge me, not to be to me torn off the heart. ”
  • “Before being afraid, one sees just; while one is afraid, one sees double, and after one was afraid, one sees disorder. ”
  • “Which what the life is? A halt in the anteroom of death. ”
  • “the friends of today are the enemies of tomorrow. ”
  • “the lamp died out when there was not any more oil: she (Mercedes) did not see more the darkness that she had not seen the light, and the day returned without she being born. ”
  • “" Ah! My foi" , known as Danglars, " if one were responsible for all that one says in the air! "
    " Yes, when what one says in the air falls down on the pointe." ”

Tourist exploitation

Visits of the cell of Edmond Dantès (sic) are still organized nowadays with the Château of Yew , on an island not far from the port of Marseilles.

Adaptations

Theatrical adaptations

Alexandre Dumas drew three dramas from his novel:
  • Assembles-Cristo (in two evenings) to the Theater-History the 2 February 3rd, 1848
  • the count de Morcerf to the Ambiguous-Comic on April 1st, 1851
  • Villefort to the Ambiguous-Comic on May 8th, 1851

Film adaptations

Televised adaptations

Adaptations in animation

  • 2004 : Gankutsuou ( the King of the Cave ), series of Japanese animation of 24 episodes realized by Mahiro Maeda

Adaptations in musical comedy

  • 2006 : the Count of Assembles-Cristo , of Emmanuel Incandela and Arnaud Thouvenel
  • 2007: It Tells di Montecristo " The Musical" of Francesco Marchetti Put in Scene Jocelyn Hattab (Italy)

External bonds

  • the book on Ebooks free and free
  • the novel in six volumes and carefully digitized, on the site of the electronic Library of Quebec.
  • a report of control in modern letters carrying on '' the figure of the hero in the Count of Monte Cristo ''

Simple: The Count off Monte Cristo

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