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The Monte-Cristo account is inspired by real facts.

"The Count of Monte-Cristo" is inspired by a shoemaker who took revenge for his denunciators after years spent in prison. Published in 1844, this is one of the best known novels of Alexandre Dumas. The story of Edmond Dantès, a young sailor unfairly imprisoned at the Château d'If near Marseille. After escaping, he discovered a treasure on the island of Monte-Cristo and turns into a noble count to take revenge on those who betrayed him.

To write her stories, Dumas usually draw inspiration from real facts. For Monte-Cristo, he relies on police archives written by Jacques Peuchet. We find the story of François Picaud, shoemaker in Nîmes.

In 1807, François Picaud wished to marry a rich young woman, as Edmond Dantès must marry Mercédès. A local merchant tells the police that he suspects Picaud to be an agent from England. This is not the case, but François Picaud will still be locked seven years in a fortress. At his release, in 1814, he changed his name for that of Joseph Lucher, disguised himself as religious and, as with Dumas, will take revenge on one of those who ruined his life.

A love intrigue, a story of betrayal, adventure and a thirst for revenge: we find the central elements of the Count of Monte-Cristo

But in reality, the story of François Picot is also fictionée, as was much done at the time. However, it is itself inspired by a true story, that of a Marseille convict.

"Gaspard-Étienne Pastorel, who was condemned to galleys, apparently, is someone who borrowed several identities, as in the history of Picaud and as in the history of" Monte-Cristo "and of which apparently we would find a trace in the archives of the Lyon police prefecture.

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