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Edmond DantèsEdmond Dantès brings the Pharaon into Marseilles after Captain Leclere’s death.First seen in chapter 1
M. MorrelM. Morrel is the shipowner who hears Edmond Dantès explain his stop at Elba.First seen in chapter 1
MercédèsMercédès is the person Edmond Dantès leaves his father to visit.First seen in chapter 2
FernandFernand is Mercédès’s cousin, whose rejected proposal and jealousy accompany Edmond Dantès’s return.First seen in chapter 3
DanglarsDanglars drafts an anonymous accusation against Edmond Dantès, exploiting Fernand’s jealousy.First seen in chapter 4
VillefortVillefort celebrates his betrothal to Renée among royalists urging harsh prosecutions.First seen in chapter 6
Abbé FariaAbbé Faria is a prisoner who offers treasure in exchange for freedom.First seen in chapter 14
Gaspard CaderousseGaspard Caderousse receives a visiting priest who questions him about Edmond Dantès.First seen in chapter 26
AlbertAlbert accompanies Franz, obtaining a temporary carriage and visiting Saint Peter’s.First seen in chapter 33
BertuccioBertuccio shows visible distress when Monte Cristo purchases a house in Auteuil.First seen in chapter 42
HaydéeHaydée is a woman Monte Cristo assures of her freedom while asking her to conceal her origins.First seen in chapter 49
ValentineValentine meets Maximilian secretly and fears her father’s authority and her arranged marriage.First seen in chapter 51
Maximilian MorrelMaximilian Morrel rents a plot beside Valentine’s garden so they can meet secretly.First seen in chapter 51
Andrea CavalcantiAndrea Cavalcanti receives payment to pretend to be another man’s son.First seen in chapter 56

Chapter 1
Edmond Dantès brings the Pharaon into Marseilles and explains his stop at Elba to M. Morrel.
Chapter 4
Danglars drafts an anonymous accusation presenting Edmond Dantès as a Bonapartist agent.
Chapter 7
Villefort offers to release Dantès until he learns that the letter concerns his own father.
Chapter 8
Guards deliver Dantès to the Château d’If, where his hope of release gives way to despair.
Chapter 17
Faria identifies the interests behind Dantès’s imprisonment and educates him while they prepare an escape.
Chapter 20
Dantès hides Faria’s body in his own bed and sews himself inside the burial sack.
Chapter 21
Dantès cuts himself free underwater, reaches Tiboulen, and survives until sailors rescue him.
Chapter 24
Dantès enters hidden caverns on Monte Cristo and discovers the treasure described by Faria.
Chapter 27
Caderousse reports that Danglars and Fernand arranged Edmond’s arrest, his father starved, and Mercédès married Fernand.
Chapter 30
Julie brings proof of payment before Morrel can kill himself, and a replacement Pharaon enters the harbor.
Chapter 38
Albert de Morcerf promises to introduce the Count of Monte Cristo into Paris society.
Chapter 44
Bertuccio describes seeking revenge against Villefort and rescuing a buried infant.
Chapter 51
Maximilian rents a plot beside Valentine’s garden so they can meet without attracting suspicion.
Chapter 61
Monte Cristo pays a telegraph operator to replace an incoming message with signals of his choosing.
Chapter 75
Noirtier makes Franz read a concealed statement describing his father’s death after a secret political meeting.
Chapter 86
Beauchamp tells Albert that Haydée identified Morcerf as the officer who betrayed her family.
Chapter 89
Mercédès begs Monte Cristo for her son’s life, and he shows her the letter behind his imprisonment.
Chapter 94
Maximilian reveals his love for Valentine, making Monte Cristo determined to help her.
Chapter 100
Valentine discovers that Monte Cristo secretly guards her and replaces poisoned drinks with medicine.
Chapter 105
Monte Cristo interrupts Maximilian’s preparations for suicide and reveals himself as Edmond Dantès, his father’s rescuer.
Chapter 110
Andrea identifies Villefort as his father and accuses him of burying him alive as a newborn.
Chapter 111
Villefort finds his wife and Edward dead, then loses his reason after Monte Cristo reveals himself.
Chapter 116
Danglars loses nearly all his money to his captors and suffers hunger while trying to preserve what remains.
Chapter 117
Monte Cristo gives Maximilian a mysterious substance and reunites him with Valentine, whom he believes dead.
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