# The Count of Monte-Cristo/Volume 1

The Count of Monte-Cristo
the
Count of Monte-Cristo
BY
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
WITH NEARLY FIVE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS FROM DESIGNS BY G. STAAL, J. A. BEAUCE, AND OTHER EMINENT FRENCH ARTISTS
IN FIVE VOLUMES
Vol. i
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS
LONDON AND NEW-YORK
1888
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page :
| Chap. | I. | Marseilles—The Arrival | 1 |
| Chap. | II. | Father and Son | 13 |
| Chap. | III. | The Catalans | 23 |
| Chap. | IV. | Conspiracy | 34 |
| Chap. | V. | The Marriage Feast | 43 |
| Chap. | VI. | The Deputy Procureur du Roi | 63 |
| Chap. | VII. | The Examination | 75 |
| Chap. | VIII. | The Château d'If | 89 |
| Chap. | IX. | The Evening of the Betrothal | 102 |
| Chap. | X. | The Small Cabinet of the Tuileries | 109 |
| Chap. | XI. | The Ogre of Corsica | 119 |
| Chap. | XII. | Father and Son | 130 |
| Chap. | XIII. | The Hundred Days | 138 |
| Chap. | XIV. | The Two Prisoners | 149 |
| Chap. | XV. | Number 34 and Number 27 | 162 |
| Chap. | XVI. | A Learned Italian | 180 |
| Chap. | XVII. | The Abbé's Chamber | 192 |
| Chap. | XVIII. | The Treasure | 215 |
| Chap. | XIX. | The Third Attack | 230 |
| Chap. | XX. | The Cemetery of the Château d'If | 241 |
| Chap. | XXI. | The Isle of Tiboulen | 249 |
| Chap. | XXII. | The Smugglers | 261 |
| Chap. | XXIII. | The Isle of Monte-Cristo | 271 |
| Chap. | XXIV. | The Secret Cave | 279 |
| Chap. | XXV. | The Unknown | 290 |
| Chap. | XXVI. | The Auberge of Pont du Gard | 301 |
| Chap. | XXVII. | The Recital | 317 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
page :
| Dantès Cast Into The Sea | Frontispiece |
| My Name Is Edmond Dantès | xv |
| Edmond Dantès | 3 |
| The "Pharaon" | 5 |
| Dantès And Morrel | 7 |
| Mercédès | 9 |
| Father And Son | 15 |
| Caderousse | 17 |
| Dantès' Father | 19 |
| Dantès and Mercédès | 21 |
| Fernand and Mercédès | 25 |
| Danglars | 31 |
| The Conspiracy | 36 |
| Fernand and Dantès | 37 |
| Fernand and the Letter | 39 |
| By her Side Walked Dantès' Father | 45 |
| The Marriage Breakfast | 49 |
| The Procureur du Roi | 51 |
| Fernand | 53 |
| The Arrest of Edmond Dantès | 55 |
| What News? | 59 |
| Mercédès and Dantè's Father | 61 |
| M. de Vlllefort | 65 |
| The Marquise de Saint-Méran | 67 |
| Renée de Saint-Méran | 71 |
| The Dinner | 73 |
| Villefort and Morrel | 77 |
| Villefort and Dantès | 79 |
| The Isle of Elba | 83 |
| Burning the Letter | 85 |
| The Château d'If | 87 |
| Taken to the Château d'If | 91 ​ |
| Dantès in the Dungeon | 93 |
| The Arrival at the Prison | 99 |
| Dantès and the Jailer | 100 |
| Villefort and Saint-Méran | 103 |
| Mercédès and Villefort | 105 |
| Mercédès and Fernand | 107 |
| Baron Dandré | 113 |
| King Louis XVIII and M. de Villefort | 117 |
| M. de Blacas | 121 |
| The Cabinet Meeting | 125 |
| The King Conferring the Cross | 127 |
| Villefort and his Father | 128 |
| Noirtier | 131 |
| The Changed Clothes | 135 |
| Napoleon's Return from Elba | 139 |
| Villefort and Morrel | 141 |
| "Be Careful of Yourself, For If You Are Killed I Shall be Alone" | 145 |
| Dantès and the Inspector | 153 |
| The Abbé Faria | 155 |
| "You Will Not Accept My Gold; I Will Keep It For Myself" | 157 |
| Examining the Register | 159 |
| Dantès Throwing his Meals into the Sea | 165 |
| Dantès and the Jailer | 169 |
| The Broken Jug | 171 |
| Dantès Undermining the Cell | 173 |
| Faria Enters Dantès' Cell | 177 |
| Dantès and Faria | 181 |
| Faria Disheartened | 187 |
| Faria Abandons Hope | 189 |
| Faria in his Chamber | 193 |
| The Needle | 195 |
| Faria Cries For Help | 209 |
| Faria's Paralyzed Arm | 213 |
| Marco Spada | 219 |
| Faria Gives Dantès the Letter | 223 |
| The Cardinal's Secretary | 225 |
| Faria's Farewell to Dantès | 235 |
| Faria's Death | 237 |
| The Death Test | 239 |
| Dantès Enters the Sack | 243 |
| The Sea is the Cemetery of the Château d'If | 247 |
| The Faint Report of a Gun was Heard | 257 |
| Jacopo | 259 |
| Dantès Views Himself | 263 |
| Jeune Amélie | 265 |
| The Isle of Monte-Cristo | 269 ​ |
| Dantès on the Isle of Monte-Cristo | 275 |
| The Cave at Monte-Cristo | 281 |
| Blasting the Rock | 283 |
| Alone with The Countless, these Unheard-of Fabulous Treasures | 287 |
| Dantès Selling the Diamonds | 291 |
| Dantès' Yacht | 293 |
| Removing the Treasure | 295 |
| Dantès Revisits his Father's Room | 297 |
| "You are Welcome, Sir," said Caderousse | 299 |
| Caderousse and His Wife | 303 |
| The Abbé Busoni | 305 |
| Busoni and Caderousse | 307 |
| La Carconte | 309 |
| Caderousse Tells the Story | 315 |
| The Death of Dantès' Father | 321 |
| Fernand Enlists | 325 |
| "Suppose it is False?" | 329 |
| Mercédès Marries Fernand | 331 |