The Count of Monte Cristo

Professor Michael S. Hart

Also known as Michael S. Hart

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Unnamed French traveller in Rome

Also known as the traveller · the Frenchman · the man travelling post

Baron Danglars, travelling under his own name to draw five million francs in Rome. Luigi Vampa’s band captures him, and Edmond Dantès ultimately forgives and releases him after taking most of his money.

Unnamed postilions on the Florence–Rome road

Also known as the postilions

Drivers who carry Danglars toward Rome. He urges them on with Italian musical terms.

Unnamed attendant at Thomson & French

Also known as the attendant · the man

An employee at the Roman banking house who announces Danglars and leads him to the bankers.

Unnamed confidential clerk at Thomson & French

Also known as the confidential clerk · the clerk

A clerk at Thomson & French who recognizes Peppino, confirms Danglars’s identity, and learns that he has withdrawn five million francs.

Unnamed guide accompanying Danglars

Also known as the cicerone · the guide

A guide in Rome who accompanies Danglars to Thomson & French and later drives him back to the hotel.

Unnamed Roman street boys

Also known as the descendants of Marius and the Gracchi · the street Arabs of Rome · the idlers

Poor Roman boys who gather around Danglars’s carriage and hotel. One runs off after Peppino whispers to him.

Unnamed postilion on the road from Rome

Also known as the postilion · the conductor

A driver on Danglars’s journey from Rome who gives him no useful answer when he asks where they are going.

Unnamed bandits escorting Danglars

Also known as the men on horseback · the four men · the men

Luigi Vampa’s bandits, who intercept Danglars’s carriage and escort him into the catacombs.

Unnamed captain’s companions in the catacombs

Also known as the companions · the garrison · the bandits

Members of Luigi Vampa’s band who rise from their beds in the catacombs as Danglars is brought in.

Unnamed giant bandit guarding Danglars

Also known as the giant · the athletic, gigantic bandit

A large bandit who guards Danglars’s cell and eats bread, cheese, and onions without responding to his request for food.

Unnamed young bandit serving Danglars

Also known as the handsome, graceful, and half-naked young man · the youth

A young bandit who brings Danglars a fowl and bread when Peppino calls for them.

Unnamed sentinel guarding Danglars

Also known as the sentinel · the guardian

A bandit who watches the door of Danglars’s cell and is relieved during his imprisonment.

Luigi Vampa

Also known as Signor Vampa · the captain · the master · the chief

A celebrated Roman bandit chief who imprisons Danglars in the catacombs and charges him for food against the five million francs he withdrew. He obeys an unnamed superior’s command not to shed Danglars’s blood, then releases him at Edmond Dantès’s direction.

Unnamed superior of Luigi Vampa

Also known as the chief · the man enveloped in a cloak · the shadow

The authority whom Vampa obeys and who orders that Danglars not be killed. He reveals himself as Edmond Dantès, explains his grievances, forgives Danglars, and orders his release.

Unnamed yacht captain carrying Maximilian to Monte Cristo

Also known as the captain

The captain of the yacht that brings Maximilian to Monte Cristo on October 5. He identifies the island and gives Maximilian a loaded carbine to answer its signal.

Unnamed yacht pilot

Also known as the pilot

The pilot who warns Maximilian that he should have been carried ashore on the sailors’ shoulders, since the Count may scold them for letting him wade.

Unnamed oarsmen and coxswain of the yacht’s gig

Also known as the four oarsmen · the coxswain · the rowers

The crew of the gig that carries Maximilian from the yacht to Monte Cristo.

Unnamed sailors carrying Maximilian ashore

Also known as the sailors · the two men

Sailors who guide Maximilian through the water to shore; the Count has arranged for access to his island to be free of charge.

Unnamed sailors aboard the yacht

Also known as the sailors

The yacht’s crew, whose oars Maximilian hears as they return to the vessel after landing him.

Jacopo

Also known as the captain of the yacht

Edmond Dantès’s trusted sailor and the captain of the yacht. He brings Valentine and Maximilian Edmond’s letter and is to carry them to Leghorn, where Noirtier awaits.

Unnamed caryatid figures

Also known as the four bending figures · the Caryatides · the statues

Sculpted female figures on the corners of the silver casket Monte Cristo opens before Maximilian.

Unnamed former friends of Danglars

Also known as my former friends

People Danglars calls on in his desperation while imprisoned; the passage does not identify them.

Unnamed old man seen by Danglars

Also known as the old man

A starving man Danglars imagines during delirium in his cell, recalling the suffering of Edmond Dantès’s father.

Unnamed traveller released near Rome

Also known as the bankrupt

Baron Danglars, whom Vampa’s band releases after Edmond forgives him. Danglars discovers that his hair has turned entirely white.

Unnamed four oarsmen and coxswain in the landing boat

Also known as the four oarsmen · the coxswain

The crew of the boat that rows Maximilian from the yacht to Monte Cristo.

Unnamed woman of marvellous beauty

Also known as the young woman · the angel of mercy

Valentine de Villefort, whom Monte Cristo secretly preserved by making her appear dead. She arrives as Maximilian is under the influence of the substance and is reunited with him.

Gérard de Villefort

Also known as M. de Villefort · Villefort · the deputy procureur · the king’s attorney · the king’s procureur · the former royal attorney at Nîmes · the procureur · the magistrate · the first magistrate in the capital

A powerful magistrate and father of Valentine, Edward, and Benedetto, his son with Madame Danglars. At Benedetto’s trial he acknowledges that he buried the newborn alive; after Héloïse and Edward die, he loses his reason and searches the garden for the infant he buried.

Maximilian Morrel

Also known as Maximilian · the stoic · M. Maximilian Morrel · captain of Spahis · Morrel · M. Morrel

M. Morrel’s son and Valentine’s beloved. Still sunk in grief after her death, he leaves Paris with Monte Cristo, who plans to help him recover his will to live.

Citizen Noirtier

Also known as Count Noirtier · M. Noirtier · Noirtier · M. Noirtier de Villefort · the paralytic · the old man

Villefort’s paralyzed but alert father and Valentine’s grandfather. He accepts Monte Cristo’s letter and remains in Bertuccio’s care when the Count leaves Paris.

Héloïse de Villefort

Also known as Madame Héloïse de Villefort · Madame de Villefort · Hermine’s friend

Villefort’s second wife and Edward’s mother, who poisoned Valentine, the Saint-Mérans, and Barrois. After Villefort tells her to take poison, she kills herself and Edward, leaving a note explaining that she could not die without her son.

Abbé Busoni

Also known as the Abbé Busoni · the abbé · the excellent Abbé Busoni · the excellent abbé · the benevolent abbé · the confessor · Giacomo Busoni · Il Signor Giacomo Busoni · the good Italian abbé · the priest

A Sicilian priest who is actually Edmond Dantès in disguise. He tells Villefort that he considers his debt repaid and prays for God to forgive him, then reveals his identity as Monte Cristo.

Madame Danglars

Also known as Hermine · Madame de Nargonne · the Baroness Danglars · the baroness · Baronne Danglars, née Hermine de Servieux · Madame and most faithful wife

Danglars’s wife and Eugénie’s mother, and Benedetto’s mother with Villefort. She faints at Benedetto’s revelation that Villefort is his father.

Eugénie Danglars

Also known as Mlle. Eugénie Danglars · Mademoiselle Eugénie Danglars · Mademoiselle Danglars · Eugénie · M. Léon d’Armilly · Mademoiselle de Villefort

Danglars and Madame Danglars’s daughter, who fled Paris after Andrea’s arrest. Debray remarks that she did well to die, though the passage does not establish that she is dead.

Unnamed nurse chosen by Doctor d’Avrigny

Also known as the nurse · a nurse of the doctor’s choice

A nurse assigned to care for Valentine. She initially mistakes Valentine’s drugged stillness for sleep, then discovers her rigid arm and calls for help.

Unnamed cousin of Villefort

Also known as the cousin

A cousin of Villefort who receives guests at Valentine’s funeral. The narrator describes him as an unobtrusive person whose role is to be useful to others.

Benedetto

Also known as Andrea Cavalcanti · Andrea · Count Andrea Cavalcanti · the contino · Cavalcante of the Cavalcanti · Master Benedetto · M. Bossuet · Prince Cavalcanti · the Corsican Benedetto · the young Corsican · Caderousse’s comrade · Unnamed assassin of Caderousse · the accused · the false Cavalcanti

A young criminal who assumed the identity of Andrea Cavalcanti and murdered Caderousse. At trial he claims that Villefort is his father: Villefort buried him alive as a newborn in Auteuil, but Bertuccio rescued him and Assunta raised him in Corsica. Villefort acknowledges the accusation as true.

Edward de Villefort

Also known as Edward · Héloïse’s son · the boy · Master Edward

The young son of Gérard and Héloïse de Villefort and Valentine’s half-brother. His mother kills him with poison before Villefort can take him away.

Barrois

Also known as the faithful servant · the old servant · the domestic

Noirtier’s devoted servant, poisoned by Héloïse with a dose intended for someone else. Beauchamp repeats a false rumor that Edward killed him.

Marquise de Saint-Méran

Also known as Madame de Saint-Méran · the marquise · the old marchioness · the old lady · my mother-in-law

Renée’s mother and Valentine’s grandmother. Héloïse poisoned her; Beauchamp repeats a false rumor that Edward was responsible.

M. de Saint-Méran

Also known as the marquis · the Marquis de Saint-Méran · my father-in-law

A staunch royalist, Renée’s father, and Valentine’s grandfather. Héloïse poisoned him; Beauchamp repeats a false rumor that Edward was responsible.

Unnamed assassin in the Villefort household

Also known as the assassin · the same hand · the poisoner

Héloïse de Villefort, who poisoned the Saint-Mérans, Barrois, and Valentine. Beauchamp’s account falsely blames Edward.

Caderousse

Also known as neighbor Caderousse · the tailor · Gaspard Caderousse · Gaspard · Master Caderousse · the innkeeper of the Pont du Gard

Edmond’s former neighbor and tailor, murdered by Benedetto during a robbery. A letter found in his bloodstained waistcoat stopped Andrea and Eugénie’s marriage contract; he had taught Benedetto a Masonic sign used among bandits.

Unnamed president of the court at Benedetto’s trial

Also known as the president

The presiding judge at Benedetto’s trial. He demands proof of Benedetto’s claim that Villefort is his father and adjourns the case for a new magistrate to try at the next session.

Unnamed jury at Benedetto’s trial

Also known as the jury

The jurors who hear the case against Benedetto. They look to Villefort after the accused refuses to follow the usual questioning.

Unnamed judges at Benedetto’s trial

Also known as the judges · the magistrates

The judges who hear Benedetto’s trial; they are stunned when he openly admits to his crimes.

Unnamed gendarmes at Benedetto’s trial

Also known as the gendarmes

Officers who bring Benedetto into court.

Unnamed sergeant-at-arms at the assizes

Also known as the sergeant-at-arms · the sergeant

A court attendant who holds places for Debray and Château-Renaud and calls them back when the court is ready.

Unnamed door-keeper of the assize court

Also known as the door-keeper

The court attendant who announces the arrival of the court.

Unnamed court crowd at Benedetto’s trial

Also known as the crowd · the privileged · the public

Spectators who crowd the courtroom out of curiosity about Benedetto and his history as a fashionable impostor and escaped galley-slave. They erupt when he names Villefort as his father.

Unnamed father of Albert de Morcerf

Also known as Albert’s father · his father

Fernand, Albert’s father and the Count of Morcerf. Albert has renounced his father’s name after Fernand’s disgrace.

Mercédès

Also known as Mademoiselle Mercédès · the Catalane · Madame Dantès · Madame de Morcerf · the Countess of Morcerf

Edmond’s former fiancée, now Fernand’s widow and Albert’s mother. She returns to the house Edmond’s father once occupied in Marseilles, where Edmond comforts her and promises to promote Albert’s happiness.

Albert de Morcerf

Also known as Viscount Albert de Morcerf · Albert · Morcerf · the viscount · M. de Morcerf · her son · my son · little Albert

Fernand and Mercédès’s son, who renounced his father’s name after Fernand’s disgrace and enlisted in the Spahis. He leaves Marseilles by ship in a lieutenant’s uniform while Mercédès watches from shore.

Edmond Dantès

Also known as Dantès · Edmond · Number 34 · Sinbad the Sailor · Count of Monte Cristo · Monte Cristo · the count · M. Zaccone

A former sailor who escaped wrongful imprisonment and became the Count of Monte Cristo. After revealing himself to Villefort, he is horrified by the deaths of Héloïse and Edward and doubts his right to exact vengeance; he later revisits the Château d’If and finds renewed resolve in Faria’s manuscript.

Unnamed concierge of the Château d’If

Also known as the concierge · the guide

A guide at the Château d’If, where he has worked since 1830. He recounts the story of Edmond and Faria, shows Monte Cristo their cells, and gives him Faria’s recovered manuscript.

Unnamed deceased wife of Villefort

Also known as his wife · the mother

Héloïse de Villefort, who kills herself and Edward after Villefort confronts her with her crimes. She leaves a note saying that she became criminal for her son’s sake.

Unnamed valet de chambre of Villefort

Also known as the valet de chambre · the valet

A Villefort household servant who tells Villefort that Edward went to his mother’s room and had not come downstairs.

Unnamed daughter of Villefort and his first wife

Also known as his daughter

Valentine de Villefort, Villefort’s deceased daughter with his first wife. Debray says she did well to die, recalling that he had once considered marrying her.

Unnamed carriage driver Paris

Also known as the sleeping coachman · his coachman

Villefort’s coachman, whom Villefort wakes and directs to drive him home after the trial.

Unnamed two women visiting Noirtier

Also known as two figures

Two people seen in Noirtier’s room through its half-open door when Villefort returns home; their identities are not specified.

Unnamed servants of the Villefort household

Also known as the servants

The Villefort household staff, who stand aside when Villefort arrives and later surround him as he frantically digs in the garden.

Unnamed father of Villefort’s infant

Also known as my father

Gérard de Villefort, who buried the newborn son he had with Madame Danglars, believing the child dead.

Unnamed mother of Benedetto

Also known as my mother

Madame Danglars, who believed her newborn son was dead and says she is not guilty of his abandonment. She faints when Benedetto reveals his parentage.

Unnamed adopted mother of Benedetto

Also known as my adopted mother · the good people

Assunta, who reclaimed Villefort’s infant at a foundling hospital and raised him in Corsica. Benedetto says she tried to instil virtue in him.

Unnamed adopted father of Benedetto

Also known as my adopted father

Bertuccio, who rescued Villefort’s infant from the Auteuil garden and raised him with Assunta in Corsica. Benedetto recalls that Bertuccio blamed the child’s crimes on his father’s abandonment.

Unnamed woman who reclaimed Villefort’s infant

Also known as the woman

Assunta, who came from Rogliano to the Paris foundling hospital and claimed Villefort’s infant as her son. She raised him in Corsica.

Unnamed woman who fainted at Benedetto’s trial

Also known as the lady

Madame Danglars, who faints at Benedetto’s revelation and is recognized when her veil falls.

Unnamed procureur succeeding Villefort

Also known as the procureur who will succeed me

The magistrate who is to take Villefort’s place after he acknowledges his guilt and withdraws from the trial. The passage does not give a name.

Beauchamp

Also known as M. Beauchamp

A politically influential journalist and friend of Albert. He attends Benedetto’s trial and comments on the dramatic force of Villefort’s confession.

Baron de Château-Renaud

Also known as M. de Château-Renaud · Château-Renaud

A young aristocrat and friend of Albert. At Benedetto’s trial, he compares Villefort’s catastrophe unfavorably with Fernand’s death by pistol.

Lucien Debray

Also known as Debray · M. Lucien Debray · Franz Debray · the mysterious tenant · Lucien · the secretary

A private secretary to the Minister of the Interior and Madame Danglars’s former lover and financial partner. At Benedetto’s trial he says he once considered marrying Valentine.

Unnamed narrator

Also known as the narrator

The story’s narrator, who recounts the trial, Villefort’s collapse, Monte Cristo’s departure, and his return to the Château d’If and Marseilles.

Unnamed prison guide who told the Château d’If story

Also known as the jailer who told the story

The former jailer Antoine, whose account of Edmond and Faria’s escape is repeated to Monte Cristo by the concierge. He no longer works at the Château d’If.

Antoine

Also known as the turnkey

The former turnkey at the Château d’If who brought food to Edmond and whom Edmond attempted to attack. The current concierge recalls Antoine’s account of the escape.

Unnamed boatman at the Marseilles quay

Also known as the owner · the boatman

A pleasure-boat owner who rows Monte Cristo to the Château d’If. He alerts him when they reach the landing.

Unnamed attendant of the Château d’If

Also known as the guard

A guard stationed at the Château d’If after it ceased to be a prison, where he helps prevent smuggling.

Unnamed young sailor aboard the departing ship

Also known as the young man · the youth in the uniform of a lieutenant · that young man who is waving his hat

Albert de Morcerf, wearing a lieutenant’s uniform as he boards a ship bound for Algiers. He waves to a woman on shore as Mercédès watches him leave.

Unnamed woman waving to a passenger aboard the ship

Also known as the veiled woman

Mercédès, who waves to Albert as he departs for Algiers and later returns to the house where she once knew happiness with Edmond.

Unnamed group of court spectators and officials

Also known as the mass of spectators and officers of the Palais

The people in the Palais de Justice who part to let Villefort pass after his confession. They show sympathy and do not insult him.

Unnamed friends of Emmanuel and Julie

Also known as the little circle · the young people

Julie Morrel, Emmanuel Herbaut, and Maximilian Morrel, gathered at Julie and Emmanuel’s apartment to discuss the recent catastrophes. Monte Cristo arrives to take Maximilian with him.

Emmanuel Herbaut

Also known as Emmanuel · the young clerk in love with M. Morrel’s daughter · M. Emmanuel · Madame Herbault’s husband

Julie Morrel’s husband and Maximilian’s brother-in-law. He discusses the recent catastrophes with Julie and is present when Monte Cristo comes to take Maximilian away.

Julie Morrel

Also known as Mademoiselle Julie · Julie · Madame Emmanuel Herbault · Madame Herbault

M. Morrel’s daughter and Emmanuel Herbaut’s wife. She asks Monte Cristo to restore Maximilian to happiness and trusts him to care for her brother.

Baptistin

Also known as Monsieur Baptistin · the valet de chambre

The Count of Monte Cristo’s French valet. He is the only servant accompanying Monte Cristo and Maximilian when they leave Paris.

Haydée

Also known as the fair Greek · the Greek mistress · the Count’s slave · the beautiful Greek · his Greek · the daughter of Ali Pasha · the daughter of Ali Tepelini

The daughter of Ali Pasha and Vasiliki, whom Monte Cristo raised with a father’s love. She takes Ali with her when the Count leaves Paris; after leaving the Château d’If, Monte Cristo whispers her name with tenderness.

Ali

Also known as the mute attendant · the Nubian · the black valet-de-chambre · my Nubian slave

Monte Cristo’s devoted Nubian servant, rendered mute after his tongue was cut out. He carries the Count and Maximilian from Paris and is later taken away by Haydée.

Bertuccio

Also known as M. Bertuccio · Monsieur Bertuccio · the steward · Giovanni Bertuccio

The Count of Monte Cristo’s Corsican steward. He remains in Paris to care for Noirtier after Monte Cristo departs.

Unnamed Count’s coachman

Also known as the coachman

The driver of Monte Cristo’s carriage, who takes him and Maximilian from Paris toward Marseilles.

Unnamed captain of the Eurus

Also known as the captain

The captain of a yacht named Eurus, arranged to meet Maximilian at Bastia and carry him to Monte Cristo on 5 October.

Unnamed French sailors and passengers at the port of Marseilles

Also known as the passengers and their relations

Travellers and their loved ones gathered aboard a ship departing for Algiers. Their farewells form the scene Maximilian sees as he returns to Marseilles.

Unnamed gravedigger in the Marseilles cemetery

Also known as the grave-digger

A cemetery worker who burned the old wooden cross marking the spot where M. Morrel had been buried before his family placed a proper grave marker.

Unnamed keeper of the Château d’If

Also known as the concierge who attended him

The Château d’If concierge who accompanies Monte Cristo through the prison and mistakes his gold for ordinary coins until he sees it by torchlight.

Unnamed visitor who bought the prison tools

Also known as visitors

Visitors to the Château d’If who bought Faria’s rope ladder and tools as curiosities. Their identities are not given.

Unnamed learned gentleman who dated the prison passage

Also known as a learned gentleman

A scholar who concluded from the stonework that Edmond and Faria could have communicated through their passage for ten years.

Unnamed grave-diggers who cast Edmond into the sea

Also known as the men who performed the office

The two bearers who tied a cannon-ball to Edmond’s feet and threw him into the sea, believing him to be Faria’s corpse. They heard his cry as he struck the water.

M. d’Avrigny

Also known as Doctor d’Avrigny

The Villefort family doctor. He warned Villefort that a poisoner was in the household.

M. Danglars

Also known as Danglars · the supercargo · Baron Danglars

A wealthy banker and Eugénie’s father. He flees France after paying five million francs and receiving a demand for the same amount, leaving his wife a letter explaining his departure and accusing her of pursuing her own fortune.

Unnamed mysterious tenant in Albert’s mother’s building

Also known as the mysterious person · the mysterious personage · the gentleman · Lucien

Lucien Debray, who secretly meets Madame Danglars in the building where Mercédès and Albert lodge. A concierge overhears his name when Madame Danglars rushes in with news of her husband’s flight.

Unnamed discreet servant of the mysterious tenant

Also known as the discreet servant

A servant who supervises the mysterious tenant’s apartment and prepares it before his regular visits.

Unnamed concierges of the building where Albert’s mother lives

Also known as the two concierges · the concierge

The discreet doorkeepers at the building where Mercédès and Albert lodge. One hears Madame Danglars call the tenant Lucien, but keeps the name from his wife.

Unnamed concierge of the Count’s Paris residence

Also known as the concierge · the porter

The gatekeeper at the Count of Monte Cristo’s Champs-Élysées residence. Beauchamp says Caderousse was murdered while leaving the house.

Unnamed valet of Baron Danglars

Also known as Étienne · his valet de chambre

Danglars’s valet, who accompanies him in the post-chaise when he leaves Paris.

Unnamed lawyer appointed to defend Benedetto

Also known as the lawyer · the young man with light hair

A young, light-haired lawyer appointed by the court to defend Benedetto. He appears far more emotionally affected than his client.

Unnamed keeper at La Force

Also known as the keeper

A keeper at La Force who refuses Andrea’s request for money and lets the other prisoners threaten him before investigating the sign that calms them.

Unnamed inspector at La Force

Also known as the inspector

A prison official who calls Benedetto to the visitors’ room.

Unnamed thieves in the Lions’ Den

Also known as the thieves · the inmates · the prisoners

Prisoners in La Force’s Lions’ Den who mock Andrea and threaten to beat him until they recognize the Masonic sign Caderousse taught him.

Unnamed examining magistrate in Benedetto’s case

Also known as the examining magistrate

The magistrate waiting to question Benedetto when his interview with Bertuccio ends.

Unnamed former servant of Villefort

Also known as the servant Beauchamp engaged · the informant

A former Villefort household servant who tells Beauchamp a false story that Edward poisoned the family. Beauchamp says he plans to dismiss him.

Unnamed sister of Maximilian Morrel

Also known as his sister

Maximilian’s married sister, who tells Château-Renaud that Maximilian is well despite her not having seen him for several days.

Lamoricière

Also known as Lamoricière

A military commander whom Albert cites as an example of a soldier who survived service in Africa.

Changarnier

Also known as Changarnier

A military commander whom Albert cites as an example of a soldier who survived service in Africa.

Bedeau

Also known as Bedeau

A military commander whom Albert cites as an example of a soldier who survived service in Africa.

Unnamed governor of Algeria

Also known as the governor of Algeria

A military governor whom Albert hopes will take an interest in him after hearing his story and help him advance in the Spahis.

Asmodeus

Also known as Asmodeus

A diabolical figure invoked by the narrator in an imagined view of the rooms occupied by Debray, Madame Danglars, Mercédès, and Albert.

Valentine de Villefort

Also known as Valentine · Mademoiselle Renée de Saint-Méran · Mademoiselle de Villefort

Villefort’s daughter and Noirtier’s granddaughter, beloved by Maximilian Morrel. Monte Cristo gives her a narcotic and promises to save her; she is later found motionless, and d’Avrigny declares her dead.

Unnamed district doctor examining the dead

Also known as the doctor of the dead · the district doctor · the strange doctor

A doctor whose official duty is to examine bodies after death. He confirms Valentine’s death and recommends the nearby Italian abbé as a priest.

M. de Boville

Also known as De Boville · the inspector of prisons · Receiver-General of the charities · the receiver-general

A former inspector of prisons who now serves as Receiver-General of the charities. He comes to collect five million francs Danglars had promised to the widows and orphans, but learns that Monte Cristo has claimed the money.

Unnamed receiver of Danglars’s letter

Also known as Madame la Baronne Danglars

Madame Danglars, Danglars’s wife, to whom he addresses a letter before planning to flee.

Unnamed concierge of the building where Albert’s mother lives

Also known as the concierge

The building’s concierge, who has never seen the mysterious tenant’s face because the man conceals it. The concierge respects his privacy because he is said to be a person of high rank.

Louise d’Armilly

Also known as Mademoiselle Louise d’Armilly · Louise

A talented singer and Eugénie’s close companion. She joins Eugénie in fleeing Paris, disguised as Léon d’Armilly’s sister, and travels with her toward Brussels.

Unnamed lady’s maid of Eugénie Danglars

Also known as Mademoiselle’s lady’s maid · the lady’s maid · the maid

Eugénie’s maid, who reports to Madame Danglars that Eugénie and Louise took tea together and asked to be left alone. She does not know that they have escaped.

Unnamed porter at the Danglars residence

Also known as the porter · the old man

An elderly gatekeeper at Danglars’s home. Eugénie tricks him into opening the gate by disguising herself as a young man.

Unnamed porter accompanying Eugénie and Louise

Also known as the porter

A porter who carries Eugénie and Louise’s trunk to their arranged meeting place and helps secure their post-chaise.

Unnamed laundress

Also known as the little laundress · the woman

A laundress at the agreed meeting place who has been warned to expect Eugénie and Louise. She arranges their post-chaise and horses for payment.

Unnamed postilion

Also known as the postilion

A postilion who brings the passport and asks Eugénie which way to travel. She directs him toward Fontainebleau before secretly changing their route.

Unnamed cab driver hired by Andrea

Also known as the driver · the cabman

A cab driver whom Andrea hires to pursue a supposed friend on the road out of Paris. He drives Andrea to Louvres and then returns to Paris.

Unnamed innkeeper at Chapelle-en-Serval

Also known as the host · the innkeeper

The innkeeper whom Andrea deceives into renting him a horse. He believes Andrea is the Count of Mauléon after finding a visiting card.

Unnamed stable-boy at Chapelle-en-Serval

Also known as the stable-boy

A boy summoned by the innkeeper to saddle the horse Andrea hires.

Unnamed son of the innkeeper at Chapelle-en-Serval

Also known as the innkeeper’s son · the child

A seven-year-old boy sent to ride with Andrea and bring the hired horse back. Andrea dismisses him near Compiègne.

Le Blanc

Also known as the horse

The horse Andrea hires at Chapelle-en-Serval to travel to Compiègne.

Unnamed waiter at the Bell and Bottle

Also known as the waiter

A waiter at the Bell and Bottle inn in Compiègne who shows Andrea to a room and serves his supper.

Unnamed hostess at the Bell and Bottle

Also known as the hostess

The hostess at the Bell and Bottle inn who tells Andrea his preferred room is occupied and offers him another.

Unnamed gendarmes at Compiègne

Also known as the gendarmes · the first gendarme · the second gendarme · the third gendarme

Gendarmes who search the Bell and Bottle for Andrea after receiving the telegraphic alert. One joins the commissary and brigadier in searching Andrea’s room while others guard the exits.

Unnamed brigadier of the gendarmerie

Also known as the brigadier

A gendarme brigadier who leads the search for Andrea at the Bell and Bottle. He discovers Andrea’s escape through the chimney and later arrests him after he falls into another room.

Unnamed commissary of police at Compiègne

Also known as the commissary · Mr. Commissary

A police commissary who accompanies the brigadier to search the Bell and Bottle for Andrea and later enters the room where Andrea is discovered.

Unnamed sentinel relieved at six in the morning

Also known as the sentinel

A sentinel guarding the Hôtel de Ville in Compiègne. He remembers seeing Andrea arrive on horseback with the innkeeper’s young son, helping the authorities identify him.

Unnamed two women in room three

Also known as the two ladies · the fair one · the other

Two women sharing a bed in room three at the Bell and Bottle. They wake when Andrea falls through the chimney; one screams while the other rings for help.

Unnamed host of the Bell and Bottle

Also known as the host

The host at the Bell and Bottle who identifies the occupants of room three when the brigadier hears their alarm.

Unnamed dragoon delivering a dispatch

Also known as the dragoon

A dragoon who brings Villefort a dispatch from the Minister of the Interior announcing Andrea’s arrest.

Unnamed tradesman visiting Villefort’s house

Also known as the tradesman

A tradesman admitted to Villefort’s house under the household’s strict precautions.

Unnamed courier to Fontainebleau

Also known as the courier

The person implied by Eugénie’s plan to redirect the post-chaise after leaving Paris; no further identity is given.

Hercules

Also known as a Hercules

The mythic hero Eugénie invokes jokingly when she uses her strength to close the trunk.

Omphale

Also known as the pale Omphale

A mythic queen whom Eugénie uses as a playful comparison for the frail Louise.

Judith

Also known as a Judith

A biblical heroine invoked by the narrator as a comparison for Eugénie’s strength and determination.

Delilah

Also known as a Delilah

A biblical woman invoked by the narrator as a comparison for Eugénie’s strength and determination.

Nero

Also known as Nero

A Roman emperor invoked in a comparison to Eugénie’s rage at the world’s cruelty.

Unnamed coachman of the Count

Also known as the coachman

Monte Cristo’s carriage driver, who drives the Count to Fernand’s home.

Unnamed driver of a hackney-coach

Also known as the coachman

The driver of the hired coach that takes Mercédès and Albert away from the Morcerf home.

Unnamed servant who replaced Barrois

Also known as the servant who had taken Barrois’s situation · the servant who replaced Barrois

A Villefort household servant who brings Noirtier’s glass and decanter and explains that Valentine drank the remaining water.

Unnamed housemaid in Valentine’s room

Also known as the housemaid · the maid

A maid in the Villefort household. The servant suspects she may have emptied Valentine’s glass and decanter, but she did not.

Unnamed lady’s maid of Valentine

Also known as Mademoiselle Valentine’s maid · the lady’s maid

Valentine’s maid, whom Villefort summons after Valentine collapses.

Unnamed father of Maximilian Morrel

Also known as Pierre Morrel · M. Morrel

Pierre Morrel, Maximilian’s father and Valentine’s grandfather’s visitor by permission. Valentine and Maximilian discuss Noirtier’s possible move from the Villefort home.

Unnamed two ladies at the Villefort home

Also known as Madame Danglars and her daughter

Madame Danglars and Eugénie, who visit Madame de Villefort to announce Eugénie’s approaching marriage to Andrea Cavalcanti.

Unnamed Italian priest renting the adjoining house

Also known as Il Signor Giacomo Busoni · Signor Giacomo Busoni · the new tenant

An Italian priest of serious manner who rents and moves into the house adjoining Villefort’s. The passage does not establish whether he is Abbé Busoni.

Lord Wilmore

Also known as Wilmore · Sinbad the Sailor · the Englishman

An eccentric, wealthy Englishman whom the Count describes as his friend and Andrea’s patron. Monte Cristo says Wilmore helped introduce Andrea and his supposed father to him.

Major Bartolomeo Cavalcanti

Also known as Major Cavalcanti · Bartolomeo Cavalcanti · Marquis Bartolomeo Cavalcanti · M. Cavalcanti · the major · the old soldier · M. Cavalcanti, the count’s father

An ex-major in the Austrian service who presents himself as Andrea’s father and a Luccan nobleman. Monte Cristo says he has heard of the marriage settlement he promised Andrea.

Unnamed master of Villefort’s house

Also known as the master of the house

Gérard de Villefort, whose conversation with d’Avrigny about the poisonings in his household was overheard by Maximilian.

Unnamed physician in Maximilian’s account

Also known as the physician · the doctor

M. d’Avrigny, who told Villefort that the sudden deaths in his household were caused by poison. Maximilian later recounts hearing their conversation.

Unnamed Countess of Morcerf’s son

Also known as her son

Albert de Morcerf, Mercédès’s son. Monte Cristo pities him after Fernand’s suicide and calls him worthy of his mother.

Unnamed officer arresting Andrea

Also known as the officer

An officer who arrives at the Danglars residence with soldiers during the contract signing and positions them at the drawing-room doors.

Unnamed soldiers arresting Andrea

Also known as the soldiers

Soldiers who accompany the officer to the Danglars residence during the contract signing.

Unnamed commissary of police at the Danglars residence

Also known as the commissary · the magistrate

A police commissary who arrives with the officer and asks which guest is Andrea Cavalcanti. He says Andrea is an escaped Toulon galley-slave accused of murdering Caderousse.

Unnamed solicitors at the contract signing

Also known as the solicitors

The solicitors who arrange the marriage contract and place its papers on the table. One sits while the other remains standing.

Unnamed representative of Major Cavalcanti

Also known as the representative of M. Cavalcanti, senior

A representative who signs the marriage contract on behalf of Andrea’s supposed father, Major Cavalcanti.

Unnamed dandified guest accompanying Andrea

Also known as one of the most consummate dandies of the Opera

A fashionable guest whose arm Andrea takes while discussing his plans at the contract gathering. The passage does not give his name.

Unnamed one of Danglars’s fellow bankers

Also known as a brother banker

A banker working with Danglars on a railway grant and investment scheme.

Unnamed three former tenants of the adjoining house

Also known as the three former tenants

The previous occupants of the house rented by the Italian priest; the passage gives no details about their departure.

Phædrus

Also known as Phædrus

A writer whom Eugénie cites as the source of the maxim “Nothing too much.”

Bias

Also known as Bias

A sage whom Eugénie cites for the saying “I carry all my effects with me.”

Pasta

Also known as Pasta

A celebrated singer whom Eugénie names as an example of an artist able to earn her own living.

Malibran

Also known as Malibran

A celebrated singer whom Eugénie names as an example of an artist able to earn her own living.

Grisi

Also known as Grisi

A celebrated singer whom Eugénie names as an example of an artist able to earn her own living.

John Law

Also known as Law

A financial promoter whose earlier Mississippi scheme is invoked by Danglars as a comparison for the railway speculation.

Unnamed master of the house in Maximilian’s account

Also known as the master of the house

Gérard de Villefort, whom Monte Cristo identifies as the man Maximilian overheard speaking with d’Avrigny in the garden.

Unnamed unnamed Minister of the Interior

Also known as the minister · the minister whose secretary is Debray

The minister for whom Lucien Debray serves as private secretary. Debray tells Madame Danglars that Albert apologized to Monte Cristo.

Unnamed French maids of Haydée

Also known as the ladies

Women attending the Danglars contract gathering; the passage does not identify them individually.

Unnamed daughter of the Count of San-Felice

Also known as the daughter

Carmela, the Count of San-Felice’s daughter, mentioned as an example of a noblewoman whose father permits her to marry.

Sterne

Also known as Sterne

A writer whose words about conscience are quoted by Monte Cristo.

Atreidae

Also known as the house of the Atreidae

The doomed family of Greek myth invoked by Monte Cristo as a comparison for the Villefort household under what he regards as divine punishment.

Unnamed father of Eugénie Danglars

Also known as her father

Baron Danglars, who pressures Eugénie to marry Andrea Cavalcanti because the proposed match could restore his credit and support his railway speculation.

Unnamed mother of Eugénie Danglars

Also known as her mother

Madame Danglars, whom Eugénie believes has made financial arrangements to protect herself from the threatened collapse of Danglars’s fortune.

Unnamed mayor of Paris

Also known as the mayor

An official whom Danglars says will receive Andrea’s promised dowry payment after the marriage ceremony.

Boileau

Also known as Boileau

A writer cited by the narrator for his phrase describing the energetic style of legal documents.

Unnamed notary

Also known as one of the notaries · the notary

One of the notaries at the Danglars contract signing, who reads the contract and prepares to have the parties sign it.

Unnamed second notary

Also known as the other notary

The second notary at the Danglars contract signing, who stands while his colleague sits.

Unnamed doorkeeper at the Danglars residence

Also known as the door-keeper · one of the floorkeepers

An attendant who announces arriving guests and is ordered by Danglars to find Andrea when he disappears.

Unnamed guests at the Danglars contract gathering

Also known as the crowd · the assembly · the guests

A fashionable crowd gathered for Eugénie and Andrea’s contract signing. The guests flee when police arrive.

Unnamed father of Andrea Cavalcanti

Also known as Andrea’s father · his father · M. Cavalcanti, senior

Major Bartolomeo Cavalcanti, who has promised Andrea a marriage settlement but is said to be too old and ill to travel to Paris.

Franz d’Épinay

Also known as Baron Franz d’Épinay · Franz · Signor Aladdin · Aladdin · M. Franz · M. d’Épinay · Baron d’Épinay · M. Franz de Quesnel · Baron d’Épinay de Quesnel

Albert’s friend and Valentine’s intended husband. Albert summons him to witness the planned duel; he attends the meeting and sees Albert apologize to Monte Cristo.

Unnamed French opera singer

Also known as Duprez

A singer performing at the Opera whose rendition of a line from William Tell Monte Cristo praises.

Fernand

Also known as the Catalan · Comte de Morcerf · Count of Morcerf · M. de Morcerf · the general · the Lieutenant-General the Count of Morcerf · Fernand Mondego

A Catalan fisherman and soldier who helped have Edmond imprisoned, then married Mercédès and became a general and peer of France. He betrayed Ali Pasha and was exposed by Haydée; after his son apologizes to Monte Cristo, Fernand challenges the Count and recognizes him as Edmond Dantès.

Unnamed valet of Abbé Busoni

Also known as the valet de chambre · the valet

Monte Cristo’s servant while he uses the Abbé Busoni identity. In this passage, Baptistin serves as the Count’s valet and ushers Mercédès into the study.

Unnamed valet of the Count of Morcerf

Also known as a servant · the servant

A servant in the Morcerf household who informs Albert that Fernand has called for him and asks what to report about the meeting. He accompanies Fernand to Monte Cristo’s house.

Unnamed servant of Albert de Morcerf

Also known as his servant

A servant who accompanies Albert to the planned duel and holds his horse.

Unnamed mother of Albert de Morcerf

Also known as Albert’s mother · his mother · the Countess of Morcerf

Mercédès, Albert’s mother and Fernand’s wife. She pleads with Edmond to spare Albert, then prepares to leave the Morcerf home with her son; Edmond offers them financial support.

Edmond's father

Also known as old Dantès · the elder Dantès · father Dantès

Edmond’s elderly father, who lived modestly in Marseilles and died of starvation and grief after Edmond’s arrest. Monte Cristo tells Mercédès that this loss helped drive his vow to avenge himself on Fernand.

Florentin

Also known as Albert’s valet de chambre

Albert’s valet. Bertuccio reports that Florentin believes Albert also intends to leave his home.

Unnamed carriage driver of Fernand

Also known as the coachman

The driver of Fernand’s carriage, which takes him from his home to Monte Cristo’s residence.

Unnamed two French maids of Haydée

Also known as the three French maids · the three other waiting-women

Attendants who care for Haydée after she faints. They are present when Monte Cristo carries her to her room.

Unnamed gentleman addressed as the “skilful swordsman”

Also known as the skilful swordsman whom you have conquered

A swordsman whom Monte Cristo says he defeated and who told Maximilian about the Count’s skill with a sword.

Unnamed two witnesses to the duel

Also known as his witnesses

Albert’s seconds, Beauchamp and Château-Renaud, who attend the planned duel and witness Albert’s apology.

William Tell

Also known as William Tell

The opera Monte Cristo watches at the theatre. He praises its music while the confrontation with Albert is underway.

Brutus

Also known as Brutus

A historical Roman invoked by Monte Cristo when explaining that he felt he had seen a ghost the night before the duel.

Unnamed solicitor of Monte Cristo

Also known as my solicitor

The Count’s solicitor, to whom Ali is instructed to deliver the will.

Unnamed daughter of Ali Pasha

Also known as the daughter of Ali Pasha of Yanina

Haydée, Ali Pasha’s daughter and Monte Cristo’s foster daughter. The Count names her his principal heir.

Unnamed woman once betrothed to Edmond

Also known as the woman I adored · his betrothed

Mercédès, whom Edmond loved and expected to marry before his arrest. In a letter to Albert, Edmond recalls saving money for her and burying it in his father’s garden.

Unnamed son of Fernand and Mercédès

Also known as her son · my son

Albert de Morcerf. Mercédès pleads with Edmond to spare him, and Edmond ultimately promises that he will live.

Unnamed dark-haired sailor

Also known as the French captain · the Frenchman

Edmond Dantès, whom Fernand recognizes after the Count changes into his former sailor’s clothing and reveals his identity.

Unnamed surgeon

Also known as the surgeon

A surgeon whom Ali is sent to fetch after Caderousse is wounded. He arrives with the porter after Caderousse has died.

Unnamed porter at the Count’s Paris residence

Also known as the porter

The gatekeeper at the Count’s Champs-Élysées residence. He accompanies the surgeon when they arrive after Caderousse’s death.

Unnamed four notable inhabitants of Yanina

Also known as the four notable inhabitants of Yanina

Four Yanina residents whose attestation confirms that Colonel Fernand Mondego surrendered Ali Pasha’s castle for two million crowns. Their names are not given.

Unnamed Englishman killed by Beauchamp

Also known as the Englishman who came to demand satisfaction

A man who demanded satisfaction from Beauchamp several months earlier and was killed by him. The passage gives no name or further details.

Unnamed valet de chambre of Albert de Morcerf

Also known as Albert’s valet de chambre · the servant

Albert’s valet, who announces Beauchamp’s visit and admits him to the house.

Unnamed members of the House of Peers

Also known as the peers · the members · the House

Peers who hear the accusations against the Count of Morcerf and appoint a committee to investigate. The committee unanimously finds him guilty after Haydée testifies.

Unnamed president of the committee of inquiry

Also known as the president

The president of the House of Peers’ committee investigating Morcerf. He questions Morcerf and Haydée, reads her evidence, and announces the committee’s unanimous verdict.

Unnamed door-keeper of the House of Peers

Also known as the door-keeper

An attendant who brings the president Haydée’s letter and later admits her to the committee room.

Unnamed interpreter of the House of Peers

Also known as the interpreter

The House’s interpreter, who reads aloud the Arabic record of Haydée’s sale.

Unnamed peer familiar with Arabic

Also known as one of the noble peers

A peer who follows the interpreter’s reading of Haydée’s Arabic document; he had studied Arabic during the Egyptian campaign.

Ali Pasha

Also known as Ali Pasha of Janina · Ali Tepelini · the pasha · the Vizier of Yanina

The ruler of Yanina, Haydée’s father and the former master of Selim. Fernand betrays him, surrenders his castle, and sells his wife and daughter; Haydée testifies to these crimes before the House of Peers.

Vasiliki

Also known as the beautiful Vasiliki · Haydée’s mother · the pasha’s wife

Haydée’s mother and Ali Pasha’s beloved wife. Fernand sold her and Haydée to the slave merchant El-Kobbir; she died on arriving at Constantinople.

El-Kobbir

Also known as the Armenian merchant · the slave-merchant · the purveyor of the harem

An Armenian slave merchant who bought Vasiliki and Haydée from Fernand for 400,000 francs on behalf of the Ottoman ruler. His signed and sealed record of the sale is presented as evidence before the House of Peers.

Unnamed sultan

Also known as the sultan · the sublime emperor · his highness

The Ottoman ruler who commissioned El-Kobbir to acquire slaves for his harem. Fernand’s sale of Vasiliki and Haydée was made on his account.

Unnamed servant accompanying Haydée

Also known as her servant

A servant who accompanies Haydée when she appears before the committee of inquiry. The passage gives no further details.

Unnamed usher of the House of Peers

Also known as the usher

An attendant who helps Beauchamp leave the House of Peers through a private entrance after Haydée’s testimony.

Unnamed messenger from Yanina

Also known as the man who arrived from Yanina

A man who brings documents about Morcerf’s conduct to a government newspaper and threatens to take the story elsewhere if it is not published. His identity is not given.

Unnamed editor of a government newspaper

Also known as the editor of the ministerial paper

An editor who publishes the accusations against Morcerf after receiving documents from a man arriving from Yanina. He tells Beauchamp that the source supplied proof.

Unnamed cabriolet driver

Also known as the driver

A driver hired to take Albert and Beauchamp to Danglars’s house.

Unnamed footman at Danglars’s house

Also known as the footman

Danglars’s footman, who announces Albert and Cavalcanti and tries to enforce Danglars’s order not to admit Albert.

Unnamed valet of Andrea Cavalcanti

Also known as the servant

Andrea’s servant, who arrives at Danglars’s house with him.

Unnamed confidential servant of Mercédès

Also known as the confidential servant · the footman

A trusted servant whom Mercédès orders to follow Albert and report where he goes.

Unnamed lady’s maid of Mercédès

Also known as her lady’s maid

Mercédès’s maid, whom she summons to help her dress after Albert leaves.

Unnamed courier to Pontoise

Also known as the courier

A messenger sent by Bertuccio to alert the grooms at Pontoise to the Count’s changed travel schedule.

Unnamed grooms at the first station

Also known as the grooms

The grooms at the first stage of the Count’s route, whom Bertuccio is instructed to alert before the journey.

Unnamed postilions

Also known as the postilions

Drivers who handle the Count’s relay horses during the rapid journey to Normandy.

Unnamed architect of the Count

Also known as the architect

An architect who works with Monte Cristo on plans for a conservatory at the Normandy house.

Unnamed porter at the Normandy estate

Also known as the porter

The gatekeeper at the Count’s Normandy estate, who has been told to expect his arrival.

Unnamed traveling servant of Albert

Also known as the servant who had travelled at the back of the carriage

A servant who accompanies Albert on the journey to Normandy and waits on him at the estate.

Unnamed chambermaid

Also known as the chambermaid

A household maid who brings Doctor d’Avrigny a cup of violet syrup for his test of the lemonade.

Unnamed doctor’s daughter Madeleine

Also known as Madeleine · Doctor d’Avrigny’s daughter · his daughter

Doctor d’Avrigny’s daughter, whom Villefort invokes while arguing that the doctor might act differently if his own child were accused. The passage confirms that Madeleine is d’Avrigny’s daughter.

Unnamed mother of Andrea Cavalcanti

Also known as Leonora Corsinari · Marchesa Oliva Corsinari · Oliva Corsinari · Marchesa Corsinari · the mother

The woman Andrea claims was his mother, a noblewoman from Fiesole whose inheritance he estimates at two million francs. This is part of the Cavalcantis’ fabricated family history.

Unnamed groom of Andrea Cavalcanti

Also known as the groom

Andrea’s servant, named Pierre in their conversation. Andrea borrows his new livery to disguise himself while visiting Caderousse.

Pierre

Also known as Andrea’s groom · the groom

Andrea Cavalcanti’s groom, whose livery Andrea borrows as a disguise.

Unnamed fruit seller

Also known as the fruiteress · the good woman

A fruit seller across from the house Andrea visits, who directs him to the retired baker Monsieur Pailletin’s room.

Unnamed retired baker

Also known as Monsieur Pailletin · M. Pailletin · the retired baker

A retired baker whose room Caderousse occupies. The passage gives no further information about him.

Unnamed man guarding the Count’s house

Also known as the man in the street · the man seated on a fence · the assassin

An unidentified accomplice who watches the Count’s house while Caderousse breaks in. He later waits outside and stabs Caderousse as he climbs over the garden wall.

Unnamed porter at the Cheval Rouge

Also known as the porter

A porter at the Cheval Rouge inn, where Andrea stays in disguise before going to meet Caderousse.

Unnamed favorite of Ali Pasha

Also known as Selim · his favorite Selim

Ali Pasha’s favorite attendant, a young soldier who guards the powder magazine with a burning lance and is ordered to ignite it if the emperor’s answer is unfavorable. Tricked into extinguishing the match by a false token, he is stabbed by Kourchid Pasha’s soldiers.

Kourchid Pasha

Also known as Kourchid · the Seraskier

The Seraskier sent by the sultan to capture Ali Pasha. After Ali’s forces receive word of a pardon, Kourchid’s soldiers kill Selim, seize the palace, and Kourchid claims authority over Vasiliki and Haydée.

Unnamed messenger of Ali Pasha

Also known as the messenger of the pasha · the messenger · the envoy

A friend and messenger of Ali Pasha who brings Selim a ring as the supposed token of the emperor’s pardon. His signal is followed by the arrival of Kourchid’s soldiers, who kill Selim.

Unnamed French officer trusted by Ali Pasha

Also known as the French officer

A French officer whom Ali Pasha trusted and sent to Constantinople. Vasiliki thinks she recognizes him among the approaching boats, but Haydée cannot recall his name.

Unnamed chemist accompanying Doctor d’Avrigny

Also known as the chemist

A chemist who accompanies Doctor d’Avrigny to the Villefort home and prepares an emetic for Barrois.

Unnamed shooting-gallery waiter Philip

Also known as Philip · the waiter · the lad

A waiter at Gosset’s shooting gallery who initially asks Albert to wait because the Count prefers to practice alone, then goes in to announce him.

Unnamed man bearing the firman

Also known as the messenger who announces the pardon · the figure at the cave entrance

A man who appears at the cavern entrance claiming that the emperor has pardoned Ali Pasha. The later messenger of Ali Pasha brings Selim the ring that confirms the supposed pardon; the text does not establish whether they are the same person.

M. Deschamps

Also known as Deschamps · the family notary

The family notary entrusted with Noirtier’s completed will. Villefort summons him to prepare Valentine and Franz’s marriage contract.

Unnamed near relatives of the Saint-Méran family

Also known as a few near relatives

Relatives who accompany the funeral party and enter the Saint-Méran family vault. The passage does not identify them individually.

Unnamed father of Franz d’Épinay

Also known as the elder d’Épinay · Franz’s father · the Baron d’Épinay · General d’Épinay · General de Quesnel · General Flavien de Quesnel · M. de Quesnel

Franz’s father, a general and royalist who attended a Bonapartist meeting in 1815 and refused to swear allegiance to Napoleon. Noirtier killed him in a duel after the meeting; his full name was General Flavien de Quesnel.

Louis-Jacques Beaurepaire

Also known as Beaurepaire

A lieutenant-colonel of artillery who, with Étienne Duchampy and Claude Lecharpal, signed an account of the Bonapartist meeting and the duel in which Noirtier killed General Flavien de Quesnel.

Étienne Duchampy

Also known as Duchampy

A general of brigade who, with Louis-Jacques Beaurepaire and Claude Lecharpal, signed an account of the Bonapartist meeting and the duel in which Noirtier killed General Flavien de Quesnel.

Claude Lecharpal

Also known as Lecharpal

A keeper of woods and forests who, with Louis-Jacques Beaurepaire and Étienne Duchampy, signed an account of the Bonapartist meeting and the duel in which Noirtier killed General Flavien de Quesnel.

Unnamed president of the Bonapartist club

Also known as the president · the chief of the assembly

The leader of the Bonapartist meeting who recruited General Flavien de Quesnel, challenged him to a duel after he refused to keep the club’s secret, and killed him. Noirtier reveals himself as the president.

Unnamed coachman of the Bonapartist club

Also known as the coachman · the State-Councillor

A member of the Bonapartist club who drives the carriage taking General Flavien de Quesnel to and from the secret meeting. The account identifies him as a State-Councillor but gives no name.

General Durand

Also known as the general

The officer named on a packet Noirtier had intended to pass down to his son. The papers direct that the packet be given to him after Noirtier’s death.

Louis XVIII

Also known as King Louis XVIII · the king · his majesty

The restored king of France, whose barony and estate he granted to General Flavien de Quesnel. The general declared allegiance to him at the Bonapartist meeting.

Napoleon

Also known as the Emperor

The former French emperor, whose return from Elba the Bonapartist club anticipated and whose dynasty the club supported.

Marshal Bertrand

Also known as the marshal · the grand-marshal

A marshal on Elba to whom Captain Leclere entrusted a packet through Edmond. The club’s report refers to a letter from Elba announcing Napoleon’s return.

Charles IX

Also known as Charles IX

A French king whom Albert invokes in a joking comparison about his behavior at the Danglars home.

Catherine de’ Medici

Also known as the Medicis

A historical French queen whom Albert mentions in his joke about Charles IX.

Claudius

Also known as Claudius

A character in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, quoted by Monte Cristo while discussing the deaths in the Saint-Méran family.

Hamlet

Also known as Hamlet

The title character in Shakespeare’s play, referenced when Monte Cristo quotes Claudius.

Unnamed guests of Madame Danglars

Also known as the ladies

Women who are present with Madame Danglars when Monte Cristo arrives. The passage does not identify them.

Unnamed courier from Greece

Also known as the courier

A messenger who brings Danglars news from Greece. Danglars says the news concerns Fernand and Yanina.

Dionysius the Tyrant

Also known as Dionysius

A ruler whom Monte Cristo cites in a comparison to explain how fortune can turn a powerful person into a slave.

Unnamed women serving Haydée

Also known as the two women

Two attendants who bring ices and sherbet into Haydée’s rooms. Their names are not given.

Unnamed trusted French officer of Ali Pasha

Also known as the French officer

A French officer whom Ali Pasha trusted and sent to the sultan. Haydée does not recall his name in this account.

Madame de Saint-Méran’s valet

Also known as the valet

A servant who assists the Marquise when her husband suddenly falls ill during their journey. His name is not given.

Unnamed doctor attending the Marquis de Saint-Méran

Also known as the doctor

A doctor summoned after the Marquis de Saint-Méran collapses during the journey. He pronounces the death an apoplectic stroke.

Unnamed maid attending Madame de Saint-Méran

Also known as her maid

A maid who enters Madame de Saint-Méran’s room with a light after the Marquise says she saw a phantom. Her name is not given.

Unnamed valet de chambre at Villefort’s home

Also known as the valet de chambre

A household servant who tells Valentine that the doctor is waiting in the dining room. His name is not given.

Madeleine d’Avrigny

Also known as Madeleine

Doctor d’Avrigny’s daughter, who is in only tolerable health. Valentine asks after her when the doctor arrives.

Antoinette

Also known as Antoinette

Doctor d’Avrigny’s niece, who is well. Valentine asks after her when the doctor arrives.

Unnamed daughter of Doctor d’Avrigny

Also known as his daughter

Doctor d’Avrigny has a daughter about Valentine’s age whose health causes him continuing anxiety because her mother was consumptive. She is Madeleine.

Unnamed mother of Doctor d’Avrigny’s daughter

Also known as her mother

The mother of Doctor d’Avrigny’s daughter, who was consumptive. Her name is not given.

Renée de Saint-Méran

Also known as Renée · Mademoiselle de Saint-Méran · the Marquis de Saint-Méran’s daughter

The daughter of the Marquis and Marquise de Saint-Méran and Villefort’s first wife. Her parents’ bodies are interred beside hers in the family vault.

Charles X

Also known as Charles X

The French king whose reign, along with Louis XVIII’s, is associated with the Marquis de Saint-Méran’s royalist service.

Unnamed old Conventionalist

Also known as the old Conventionalist of ’93

A former revolutionary who, according to Beauchamp, urged Napoleon in 1814 to renew the struggle and revive the Republic.

Maximilian’s deceased mother

Also known as my mother

Maximilian’s mother, whom Valentine invokes when promising that she will not marry Franz and will flee with Maximilian if necessary.

Unnamed magistrate mentioned by Valentine

Also known as a magistrate

A hypothetical official before whom Valentine says she would refuse to marry Franz if she were brought there against her will.

Unnamed priest mentioned by Valentine

Also known as a priest

A hypothetical priest before whom Valentine says she would refuse to marry Franz if she were brought there against her will.

Voltaire

Also known as Voltaire

A writer whose words about going to the country are quoted by Beauchamp at the family vault.

Piron

Also known as Piron

A person to whom Voltaire reportedly wrote the words quoted by Beauchamp.

Unnamed newborn son of Villefort and the Baroness

Also known as the infant · the child · Benedetto

Villefort and Madame Danglars’s son, whom they believed dead at birth and whom Villefort buried in the Auteuil garden. He was actually alive, was taken to a foundling hospital wrapped in a marked piece of linen, and was later claimed by Assunta and raised as Benedetto.

Unnamed Auteuil tenant

Also known as the tenant

A tenant of the Auteuil house who agreed to cancel the lease after Villefort paid 6,000 francs. Villefort returned to the house after regaining possession of it.

Unnamed nurse of Madame Danglars

Also known as her nurse

A nurse who helped Madame Danglars return to the Auteuil house after Villefort was wounded. Her name is not given.

M. de Nargonne

Also known as Madame Danglars’s first husband · her former husband

Madame Danglars’s first husband, who died after discovering she was pregnant by Villefort. His baronial crown and Hermine’s initial were embroidered on the linen used to identify their son.

Unnamed Paris asylum attendant

Also known as the attendant

An official at the Paris foundling hospital who received Villefort and Madame Danglars’s infant, brought there on the night of September 20.

Unnamed agents searching for the woman who reclaimed the infant

Also known as the agents · the bloodhounds

Investigators whom Villefort employed under the pretense of a criminal inquiry to trace the woman who reclaimed his son. They tracked her to Châlons but could not find her afterward.

Unnamed servant of Noirtier

Also known as Noirtier’s old servant

Noirtier’s elderly household servant, who hears the commotion when Madame de Saint-Méran arrives at Villefort’s home in grief.

Unnamed Countess of Morcerf’s mother

Also known as my mother · Madame de Morcerf

Mercédès, Albert’s mother and wife of Fernand. She invites the Count to the ball and later speaks with him privately, trying to renew their friendship; he reveals that he once loved a woman in Malta who married someone else.

Unnamed investigator sent by Villefort

Also known as the visitor · the stranger · the envoy of the prefect of the police · the agent

A police investigator sent by Villefort through M. de Boville to question Abbé Busoni and Lord Wilmore about the Count of Monte Cristo. The two identities he interviews give him conflicting, false accounts.

Unnamed father of M. Zaccone

Also known as M. Zaccone’s father · the rich shipbuilder in Malta · the shipowner

A rich shipbuilder in Malta, described by Abbé Busoni and Lord Wilmore as the Count’s father. The accounts are fabricated cover stories.

Unnamed governor of an Indian state

Also known as one of the petty sovereigns of India

A petty Indian ruler whom the disguised Lord Wilmore claims employed the Count at age ten and fought against the English.

King Otho

Also known as King Otto

The king of Greece who, according to Lord Wilmore’s false account, granted the Count a mining concession in Thessaly after the Greek government was established.

Unnamed wife of Lord Wilmore’s friend

Also known as the wife of one of my friends

A woman whom the disguised Lord Wilmore claims the Count seduced in England, giving a supposed reason for their feud.

Grisier

Also known as Grisier

A shooting instructor who, according to the disguised Lord Wilmore, visits his home every other day.

Unnamed d’Aguesseau

Also known as the great d’Aguesseau

A name Albert uses teasingly for Villefort when saying the family may try to persuade him to attend the Morcerf ball.

Unnamed daughter of the Marquis de Saint-Méran

Also known as the daughter

Renée de Saint-Méran, Villefort’s deceased first wife and Valentine’s mother. Albert says the Marquis de Saint-Méran was Valentine’s grandfather on her mother’s side.

Marquis de Saint-Méran

Also known as M. de Saint-Méran · the marquis · the old master of the Auteuil house

A staunch Bourbon supporter and Renée’s father, formerly owner of the Auteuil house where Villefort secretly met Madame Danglars and buried their newborn. He dies while traveling to Paris, where he had planned to hurry Valentine’s marriage to Franz.

Unnamed aged woman arriving at Villefort’s home

Also known as the old lady · Madame de Saint-Méran

The Marquise de Saint-Méran, who arrives at Villefort’s home in grief to report her husband’s death.

Unnamed coachman of Madame Danglars

Also known as her coachman

The coachman who waits in his carriage while Madame Danglars visits Villefort, and whom the passage describes sleeping on his box.

Unnamed servants of the Morcerf household

Also known as the servants · the footmen

Household staff at the Morcerfs’ home who prepare the ball supper and carry refreshments through the rooms.

Unnamed guests at the Morcerf ball

Also known as the guests · the group of about twenty persons

People attending the Morcerfs’ summer ball. They dance, talk, and move into the garden when the doors and blinds are opened.

Unnamed gallant old general

Also known as the old general

An elderly general at the Morcerf ball who says the guests will not go to the garden alone. In 1809 he sang “Partant pour la Syrie.”

Unnamed academician and naturalist

Also known as the tall, harsh-looking man · the academician

A learned man at the Morcerf ball who discovered a lizard with an extra vertebra and was promoted to officer of the Legion of Honor. Albert describes him as newly elected to a learned assembly.

Unnamed experimental scientist and writer

Also known as the gentleman in the blue coat embroidered with green

An academician at the Morcerf ball whom Albert says experiments on animals and writes well. His identity is not given.

Unnamed peer and comic-opera writer

Also known as the gentleman in the dark blue coat · the third

A colleague of the Count who opposes giving the Chamber of Peers a uniform and has written comic operas and articles for the Siècle. Albert says he may be made an ambassador.

David

Also known as David

A man whom Albert says the Republic commissioned to design a uniform for Academicians.

Unnamed banker of Franck & Poulmann

Also known as the millionaires Franck & Poulmann

Bankers in Frankfurt whose recent bankruptcy costs Danglars 200,000 francs after he honors their bills.

Unnamed lizard with an extra vertebra

Also known as the lizard

A lizard near Rome whose unusually large number of vertebrae was the discovery that advanced an academician’s career.

Unnamed experimental rabbits

Also known as the rabbits

Rabbits used in experiments by the unnamed scientist at the Morcerf ball.

Unnamed experimental fowls

Also known as the fowls

Fowls used in experiments by the unnamed scientist at the Morcerf ball.

Unnamed experimental dogs

Also known as the dogs

Dogs used in spinal-marrow experiments by the unnamed scientist at the Morcerf ball.

Elssler

Also known as Elssler

A dancer who performs the cachucha in Le Diable boiteux at the Opera. Madame Danglars says the Count gave her a magnificent ring on a bouquet.

Unnamed Greek princess

Also known as the Greek princess

A Greek princess who attends the Opera and is delighted by Elssler’s dancing. Madame Danglars asks whether she will attend the Morcerf ball.

Unnamed old tenant of the title

Also known as the tenant

A person who held the lease on the Auteuil house when Villefort returned to it. Villefort paid this tenant to cancel the lease.

Unnamed unnamed mother of Valentine

Also known as her mother

Valentine’s deceased mother, whose fortune makes Valentine wealthy in her own right. The Auteuil house is described as part of Valentine’s marriage portion.

Unnamed Auteuil notary

Also known as the notary · Mr. Notary

A provincial notary who sold the Auteuil house to the Count. Monte Cristo speculates that the notary may have bribed his steward to handle the purchase.

Unnamed French valet de chambre of the Count

Also known as the valet de chambre · the valet

A French servant in the Count’s household who carries visitors’ messages and attends the Count. He is among the servants who carry in the casks containing live fish at the dinner.

Unnamed servants of the Count’s Paris household

Also known as the servants · a number of servants

The Count’s household staff. Four of them carry live fish in plant-covered casks into the dining room.

Unnamed fish in the dinner casks

Also known as the sterlet · the lamprey · the fish

Live sterlets from the Volga and lampreys from Lake Fusaro, transported to the Count’s dinner in casks. The Count has brought a second pair in case the fish served at table died in transit.

Unnamed Baroness Danglars’s former husband

Also known as M. de Nargonne · her first husband

Madame Danglars’s first husband, who died after returning from an absence and finding her pregnant by Villefort. Danglars claims he died of grief or anger.

Mademoiselle Cornélie

Also known as Cornélie · the confidential maid

Madame Danglars’s confidential maid. She reports that Eugénie practiced music and then went to bed, and helps Madame Danglars undress.

Unnamed little dog at the Danglars home

Also known as the little dog · the dog · the little spaniel

A pet spaniel at the Danglars home that recognizes Debray as a friend but reacts badly when Danglars handles it roughly.

Unnamed Roman author Pliny

Also known as Pliny

An author cited by the Count for his account of Romans transporting live fish from Ostia to Rome.

Lucullus

Also known as Lucullus

A Roman figure whose luxurious dining the Count invokes when boasting of the modern ability to procure rare foods.

Cleopatra

Also known as Cleopatra

An Egyptian queen cited in the Count’s comparison of extravagant banquets.

Lorenzo de’ Medici

Also known as Lorenzo de’ Medici

A historical ruler invoked in the Count’s comparison of extravagant banquets.

Apicius

Also known as Apicius

A Roman gastronome whose lavish feasts the Count compares with his dinner.

Unnamed unnamed Countess’s doctor

Also known as the doctor

A doctor mentioned by the Count as someone who might pass through the Auteuil room’s concealed staircase with a nurse and father when tending a newborn.

Unnamed nurse

Also known as the nurse

A nurse mentioned by the Count as someone who might use the concealed staircase to tend an honest mother and her sleeping child.

Marquise de Ganges

Also known as the Marquise de Ganges

A woman whose chamber the Count compares to the gloomy room at Auteuil.

Desdemona

Also known as Desdemona

A character invoked by the Count as a comparison for the gloomy Auteuil room.

Ugolino

Also known as Ugolino

A figure in Dante’s Inferno whom Major Cavalcanti mentions when comparing famous prisons and chambers.

Tasso

Also known as Tasso

A poet whose prison at Ferrara Major Cavalcanti cites as a famous place.

Francesca

Also known as Francesca

A figure associated with the room at Rimini that Major Cavalcanti cites as a famous place.

Paolo

Also known as Paolo

A figure associated with the room at Rimini that Major Cavalcanti cites as a famous place.

Othello

Also known as Othello

A character invoked by the Count in an imagined scene of someone descending the Auteuil staircase with a hidden burden.

Abbé de Ganges

Also known as Abbé de Ganges

A figure invoked by the Count in an imagined scene of someone descending the Auteuil staircase with a hidden burden.

Lucina

Also known as the goddess Lucina

A Roman goddess of childbirth whom the Count invokes while imagining the Auteuil room as an honest mother’s chamber.

M. Demoustier

Also known as Demoustier

An author whom Danglars quotes in a remark about his money and cash boxes.

Unnamed former baritone who taught Madame Danglars

Also known as the celebrated baritone

A celebrated baritone who once taught Madame Danglars music after her separation from her husband; the passage does not give his name.

Unnamed dancer who taught Danglars

Also known as the danseuse

A dancer who had made a reputation in London and taught Danglars dancing after his marital rupture.

Unnamed agent at the Montlhéry telegraph station

Also known as the man employed there · the telegraph operator

The telegraph operator who altered signals, causing false news about Don Carlos and Danglars’s losses. Madame Danglars says he was dismissed and fled before an order for his arrest could be carried out.

Unnamed unnamed Trieste correspondent of Danglars

Also known as Jacopo Manfredi · his correspondent

A Trieste businessman who had long handled large transactions with Danglars and then suspended payment on a million-franc advance. His Paris correspondent disappears, leaving Danglars with unpaid bills.

Unnamed Paris correspondent of Jacopo Manfredi

Also known as the correspondent

The Paris correspondent named on Jacopo Manfredi’s bills of exchange, who disappears before Danglars can collect payment.

Unnamed advisor recommending Cavalcanti

Also known as the house of Fenzi · Fenzi

A Florentine banking house that recommends Major Cavalcanti to Danglars.

Unnamed Italian prince

Also known as the prince

A wealthy Tuscan prince whom the Count cites as an example of a nobleman who gives sons different fortunes depending on whether their marriages meet his approval.

Unnamed man named Fernand Mondego

Also known as Fernand Mondego

The name Danglars says Fernand de Morcerf used when he was a fisherman. The Count suggests investigating his role in the fall of Ali Tepelini.

Unnamed correspondent of Danglars in Yanina

Also known as his correspondent in Yanina

A contact in Yanina whom Danglars plans to ask about Fernand Mondego’s role in the catastrophe of Ali Tepelini.

Unnamed usher in Villefort’s antechamber

Also known as the door-keeper

An attendant at the Palais de Justice who recognizes Madame Danglars as the visitor expected by Villefort and escorts her to his private office.

Unnamed cab driver carrying Madame Danglars

Also known as the driver

A cab driver whom Madame Danglars hires to take her from the Rue Guénégaud to the Rue de Harlay.

Unnamed people at the Palais de Justice

Also known as the business-like persons · the press of people

Visitors and workers at the Palais de Justice who fill the hall and Villefort’s antechamber. They are not individually identified.

Unnamed servant of Villefort

Also known as the servant

A servant at the Villefort home whom Valentine sends to summon Monsieur or Madame de Villefort to Noirtier’s room.

Unnamed witnesses to Noirtier’s will

Also known as the witnesses · seven witnesses

Witnesses present when Noirtier approves and seals his will. The passage does not identify them individually.

Unnamed telegraph operator at Montlhéry

Also known as the gardener · the telegraph man · the man at the telegraph

A government telegraph operator who is passionate about gardening and has worked at the Montlhéry station for fifteen years. The Count bribes him to send altered signals, leading to false market news; the operator is overwhelmed by the money and faints.

Unnamed right-hand telegraph correspondent

Also known as the right-hand correspondent

The telegraph operator at the station to the right of Montlhéry, who sends signals that the Montlhéry operator is supposed to relay. He reacts in confusion when the signals are altered.

Unnamed left-hand telegraph correspondent

Also known as the left-hand correspondent

The telegraph operator at the station to the left of Montlhéry, who receives and relays the altered signal onward to the Minister of the Interior.

Unnamed son of Mère Simon

Also known as the son of Mère Simon · the young rascal

A local boy whom the Montlhéry telegraph operator suspects of stealing three strawberries from his garden.

Mère Simon

Also known as Mère Simon

The mother of a local boy whom the Montlhéry telegraph operator suspects of stealing strawberries.

Don Carlos

Also known as the king · the Infante Don Carlos

A Spanish claimant whom the French government has been hosting at Bourges. False telegraph news claims he has escaped to Spain, prompting a selloff of Spanish bonds.

Unnamed Minister of the Interior

Also known as the minister · the minister whose secretary is Debray

The minister for whom Lucien Debray serves as private secretary. The false telegraph message from Montlhéry is relayed to him.

Unnamed French telegraph correspondent at Bayonne

Also known as the prefect of Bayonne

An official at the far end of the telegraph line who would receive messages from Montlhéry. The Count mentions the prefect of Bayonne while discussing how signals are relayed.

Unnamed grooms at the Auteuil house

Also known as the grooms

Stable workers at the Count’s Auteuil residence who tend the horses.

Unnamed servants at the Auteuil house

Also known as the servants · the household staff

The Count’s household staff at Auteuil, including kitchen workers and servants who move through the restored house.

Unnamed dogs at the Auteuil house

Also known as his dogs

The Count’s pet dogs, who welcome him at the Auteuil house.

Unnamed birds at the Auteuil house

Also known as the birds

Birds kept at the Count’s Auteuil house whose songs delight him.

Unnamed horses at the Auteuil house

Also known as the horses

Horses in the Count’s Auteuil stables, tended by the grooms.

Méd éah

Also known as Médéah · the beautiful new horse · the horse

A valuable horse bought by Maximilian Morrel, whom he rides to the Count’s Auteuil gathering. The Count recalls the horse cost 5,000 francs.

Unnamed lady accompanying Danglars

Also known as the baroness

Madame Danglars, who arrives at the Count’s Auteuil gathering with her husband and Debray.

Unnamed orange-tree

Also known as the orange-tree

A tree at the Count’s Auteuil residence from which Danglars plucks blossoms.

Unnamed cactus

Also known as the cactus

A cactus at the Count’s Auteuil residence that pricks Danglars when he tries to pluck it.

Unnamed Baron d’Épinay

Also known as the Baron d’Épinay

A title mentioned for Franz’s father, General de Quesnel, who was created Baron d’Épinay by Charles X.

Unnamed servant of the Minister of the Interior

Also known as the minister’s secretary

Lucien Debray, the minister’s private secretary, who uses the telegraph news to advise Madame Danglars.

Unnamed son of M. Morrel

Also known as his son

M. Morrel’s son, who serves as a lieutenant in the army; he is Maximilian Morrel.

Unnamed Marchesa Oliva Corsinari

Also known as Oliva Corsinari · Marchesa Corsinari · the mother of Andrea Cavalcanti · the mother

A woman whom Major Cavalcanti and Andrea claim was Andrea’s mother, a noblewoman from Fiesole who married the major and is said to have died ten years ago. The passage presents this as part of their fabricated family history.

Unnamed tutor alleged to have abducted Andrea

Also known as the unfaithful tutor · the tutor

A tutor whom the Cavalcantis’ cover story accuses of abducting Andrea in childhood. The passage gives no independent confirmation of this account.

Unnamed valet de chambre of the Count

Also known as the valet de chambre

The Count’s valet, who reports that Andrea has arrived and shows him to the blue drawing-room.

Unnamed steward of Major Cavalcanti

Also known as his steward

A steward whom the Count says is robbing Major Cavalcanti; no further details are given.

Unnamed enemies of the Cavalcanti family

Also known as the enemies of your noble family · the Corsinari

People invoked in the Cavalcantis’ cover story as having arranged Andrea’s childhood abduction. Their identities are not established.

Unnamed uncle and aunt of Franz d’Épinay

Also known as his uncle and aunt

Franz’s only closer living relations, according to Héloïse’s account; their names are not given.

Unnamed horse dealer

Also known as the horse dealer · the astonished dealer

The seller from whom Maximilian buys Médéah after winning enough money to afford the horse.

Mithridates

Also known as King Mithridates · Mithridates, rex Ponticus

A king whose practice of taking small doses of poison is discussed as a way to build resistance.

Cornelius Nepos

An author whose work Edward is studying with his tutor.

Seneca

A philosopher cited by the Count among writers who have discussed the soul.

Cabanis

Also known as Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis

A physician and thinker whom Faria describes as an intimate friend. Héloïse mentions him as a figure she might have wished to become, given her interest in chemistry and natural sciences.

Gregory XVI

Also known as the pope · his Holiness · our holy father the Pope

The pope whom Franz visited in Rome. The Count of Monte Cristo says he gave him an emerald and received a man’s life in return.

M. Magendie

Also known as Magendie

A scientist cited by the Count as an example of someone whose animal experiments would not prompt a criminal accusation.

M. Flourens

Also known as Flourens

A scientist cited by the Count as an example of someone whose animal experiments would not prompt a criminal accusation.

Abbé Adelmonte

Also known as the worthy Abbé Adelmonte · Doctor Adelmonte · my friend Adelmonte

A Sicilian chemist whom the Count describes as his acquaintance and teacher. He conducts experiments involving poison and animals, and teaches the Count a powerful preparation that can act as a remedy or a poison.

Desrues

A historical criminal whom the Count describes as more skilful than the foolish poisoners he criticizes.

Haroun-al-Raschid

Also known as Haroun al-Rashid

A ruler from the Arabian Nights invoked by Héloïse as a comparison for Eastern sultans.

Giaffar

Also known as Giafar

A vizier from the Arabian Nights invoked by Héloïse as a comparison for Eastern rulers.

Pope Alexander VI

Also known as Alexander VI

A pope whom Faria cites as part of the unsuccessful historical effort to unite Italy. The Count refers to the poisons associated with him and the Borgias.

Cesare Borgia

Also known as Cæsar Borgia

A historical Italian ruler whom Faria mentions in connection with plans to unite Italy. The Count refers to the poisons associated with him and the Borgias.

The Borgias

Also known as the Borgias

A family invoked in the discussion of famous poisons and poisoners.

Baron de Trenck

Also known as the Baron de Trenck

A historical figure whose story about poison is said to have been misused in modern drama and romance.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Also known as Jean Jacques Rousseau

A philosopher whose thought experiment about killing a distant mandarin is invoked by the Count.

Richard III

Also known as Richard the Third

An English king whom the Count cites as an example of someone who could justify removing children who stood in the way of his ambitions.

Edward IV

Also known as King Edward IV

An English king whose two sons are mentioned in the Count’s example of Richard III’s crimes.

Lady Macbeth

Also known as Lady Macbeth

A character in Shakespeare’s play whom the Count invokes as an example of a person who might justify crime through maternal ambition.

Duncan

Also known as King Duncan

The king murdered in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, mentioned in the Count’s example about Lady Macbeth.

William Shakespeare

Also known as Shakespeare

A playwright cited by the Count, who refers to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

Unnamed physician consulted by Madame de Villefort

Also known as the medical man

A physician whom Madame de Villefort remembers meeting in Perugia and consulting about Valentine’s health; she had mistaken the Count for a medical man.

Unnamed physician requested by Héloïse

Also known as a physician

A doctor Héloïse asks the Count to summon for Edward after the carriage accident; the Count reassures her that the boy is unharmed.

Unnamed schoolfellow of Eugénie Danglars

Also known as the schoolfellow · a young woman without fortune

A young woman who studies music with Eugénie and has promising talent as a singer. Eugénie avoids being seen with her in public because she is expected to pursue a theatrical career.

Levasseur

Also known as Levasseur

An opera singer who returns to the stage as Bertram in Robert le Diable after a serious illness.

Bertram

Also known as Bertram

A role in the opera Robert le Diable, performed by Levasseur.

Countess G——

Also known as the countess · the Venetian · Madame G——

A beautiful, witty Venetian woman whom Franz met in Paris. At the opera she tells Albert and Château-Renaud how the Count sent her the Jockey Club trophy under the name Lord Ruthven.

Lord Ruthven

A vampire figure known to Countess G——, whom she had invoked as a comparison for the Count of Monte Cristo. Albert jokes that the Count used the name for the winning horse and jockey.

Unnamed jockey named Job

Also known as Job · the little rider

A tiny jockey who rides the winning roan horse at the Jockey Club race, under a false identity.

Unnamed roan racehorse

Also known as the splendid roan · the winning horse · Vampa

The roan horse that wins the Jockey Club race under the name Vampa, ridden by the tiny jockey Job. Albert believes the Count arranged the entry.

Nautilus

Also known as Nautilus

A racehorse on which Château-Renaud places a bet.

Ariel

Also known as Ariel

A racehorse beaten by the winning roan at the Jockey Club race.

Barbare

Also known as Barbare

A racehorse beaten by the winning roan at the Jockey Club race.

Unnamed French opera audience members

Also known as the audience · the pit · the spectators

Opera-goers who repeatedly call for Albert and Château-Renaud to be quiet while they talk during the performance.

Unnamed young woman accompanying the Count

Also known as the beautiful Greek · the Greek · his Greek

Haydée, the Greek woman who attends the opera with the Count and attracts the audience’s attention with her beauty and jewels.

Unnamed lady announced as Madame de Villefort’s friend

Also known as the lady

A friend of Madame de Villefort who arrives to dine with her as the Count is leaving.

Madame Morrel

Also known as M. Morrel’s wife

M. Morrel’s loving and steadfast wife, mother of Julie and Maximilian. Albert says she opposes his proposed marriage to Eugénie Danglars.

Germain

Also known as the valet

Villefort’s valet in Paris, who receives and announces Noirtier when he arrives to see his son. Later he serves Albert de Morcerf and enjoys his master’s confidence.

Unnamed Baron Danglars’s son-in-law

Also known as the future son-in-law

A prospective son-in-law mentioned by Debray in connection with Madame Danglars’s stock speculation; he is Albert de Morcerf.

Unnamed minister

Also known as the minister

The unnamed minister for whom Lucien Debray serves as private secretary.

Dante Alighieri

Also known as Dante

An Italian poet whose Inferno is referenced in the story. The Count cites Dante as having celebrated the Cavalcanti family.

Potemkin

Also known as Prince Potemkin

A historical Russian figure invoked by Albert as a comparison for the Count’s apparent habit of scattering diamonds.

Tom Thumb

Also known as Tom Thumb

A fairy-tale character invoked by Albert in a comparison to the Count scattering diamonds like a trail of stones.

Diogenes

Also known as Diogenes

An ancient Greek philosopher whose phrase about humans as featherless bipeds is quoted by the Count.

Unnamed Russian ambassador

Also known as the Russian ambassador

The ambassador whose opera box is occupied by the Count and Haydée after they arrive.

Count of Spada

Also known as the last Count of Spada

The last descendant of the Spada family and Faria’s patron, who dies in 1807. He leaves Faria his family papers, library, breviary, and money, making Faria his heir.

Unnamed man mentioned as having a place in the secret service

Also known as the person with half a million of secret-service money

A person whom Madame Danglars imagines might have access to half a million francs in secret-service funds; no identity is given.

Major Black

Also known as the Count of Monte Cristo’s racing name

A racing identity Albert says the Count used when entering thoroughbreds ridden by tiny jockeys.

Unnamed bride proposed for Andrea Cavalcanti

Also known as a wife for Andrea

A hypothetical wealthy and well-born woman Albert says he would help find if Andrea Cavalcanti wanted to marry.

Unnamed chief referendary

Also known as the chief referendary

An official with whom the Count of Morcerf is said to be dining during the opera evening.

Unnamed Greek attendant of Haydée

Also known as the Greek attendant · the Romaic slave

Haydée’s Greek maid, who conveys her mistress’s wishes to Haydée’s three French maids and admits the Count to her apartments.

Unnamed French maid seeking Valentine

Also known as the voice behind the trees · the messenger

A maid who calls Valentine from the garden to say that Madame is looking for her and that the Count of Monte Cristo is visiting.

Myrtho

Also known as Myrtho

A companion whom the Count says will accompany Haydée, together with Ali, if she goes out.

Unnamed Satan

Also known as Satan

A figure in the Count’s account of being tempted with the kingdoms of the world; he offers to make the Count an agent of Providence.

Valentine’s mother

Also known as her mother · Valentine’s angel mother

Valentine’s deceased mother, who died when Valentine was young. Valentine believes she would have supported her relationship with Maximilian.

Unnamed father of Haydée

Also known as Haydée’s father · the King of Epirus

Haydée’s late father, an illustrious ruler of Epirus who called her his joy. She remembers and loves him deeply.

Unnamed mother of Haydée

Also known as Haydée’s ill-fated mother

Haydée’s mother, whose name and history are not given here. The Count asks Haydée to keep her parents’ names and her birth secret.

Unnamed servant of Madame de Villefort

Also known as her waiting-maid

A maid whom Madame de Villefort nearly summons to find Valentine in the garden.

Unnamed visitors to Madame de Villefort

Also known as the two visitors

Two people present when the Count arrives at the Villefort home. They observe him and then withdraw.

Unnamed Chancellor

Also known as the chancellor

The official with whom Villefort is dining when the Count visits Madame de Villefort.

Unnamed tutor of Edward de Villefort

Also known as Edward’s tutor

Edward’s tutor, whose lessons include Cornelius Nepos; the Count infers from Edward’s reference to Mithridates that the tutor has taught him well.

Unnamed Count of Monte Cristo’s valet

Also known as the valet de chambre

The Count’s valet, whom the Count says he cured of a fever while staying at the Hôtel des Postes in Perugia.

Unnamed landlord of the Hôtel des Postes

Also known as the landlord

The landlord in Perugia whom the Count says he cured of jaundice.

Cocles

Also known as Cock-eye · the old one-eyed cashier · the cashier · the concierge

M. Morrel’s devoted, patient former cashier, known by the nickname Cock-eye. He now serves as gatekeeper at Julie and Emmanuel’s home in the Rue Meslay and does not recognize the Count.

Penelon

Also known as the old seaman · the worthy tar · the gardener

An old sailor from the Pharaon, now a gardener in Julie and Emmanuel’s household. He once saw the English agent who aided M. Morrel and suspected he was the same person who had helped the family earlier.

Unnamed merchant offering to buy Morrel & Son

Also known as M. Delaunay

A merchant who offers to purchase the goodwill of Morrel & Son for 300,000 francs. Emmanuel and Julie decline the offer and close the business instead.

Unnamed merchant seeking ship insurance

Also known as the merchant

A merchant who arrives shortly after Emmanuel and Julie close Morrel & Son, seeking insurance for two ships.

Unnamed proprietor of the garden plot

Also known as the proprietor

The owner of the neglected kitchen-garden plot beside the Villefort property, which Maximilian rents for 500 francs a year.

Unnamed market-gardeners

Also known as the renters

People who temporarily rent the unused kitchen-garden plot before Maximilian leases it.

Unnamed gardener’s wife

Also known as the market-gardener’s wife

A woman who lives at the garden plot and is expected to be away briefly, allowing Maximilian to use the hut he plans to build there.

Unnamed owner of the Faubourg Saint-Honoré mansion

Also known as the possessor of the property

The owner who bought the former kitchen-garden at a high price, hoping to profit from a proposed street, and now rents it to market-gardeners.

Unnamed parrot

Also known as the splendid paroquet · the parrot

A pet bird in the Villefort drawing room whose feathers Edward plucks. Edward also feeds it live flies.

Unnamed garden birds

Also known as the birds

Birds whose singing fills the garden at Julie and Emmanuel’s home.

Socrates

A philosopher cited by the Count among writers who have discussed the soul.

Saint Augustine

Also known as St. Augustine

A theologian cited by the Count among writers who have discussed the soul.

Rothschild

Also known as the Rothschild

A banker whom Maximilian uses as a comparison for how wealthy his family feels on their modest income.

Unnamed flowers in Julie’s garden

Also known as the dead roses · the noisette rose-tree

Roses in Julie’s garden that she tends by plucking off dead leaves and blooms.

Unnamed fish in the fountain

Also known as the gold and silver fish

Gold and silver fish living in the fountain basin at the Morrel residence.

Unnamed Wilmore

Also known as Lord Wilmore

An eccentric man whom the Count describes as his friend and as someone who performed anonymous acts of kindness. The Count suggests he may have been the Morrel family’s unknown benefactor, but says he has not seen him for two years.

Unnamed English clerk of Thomson & French

Also known as the Englishman · the confidential clerk · the agent of Thomson & French · the stranger · Sinbad the Sailor

An English-appearing agent of Thomson & French who aided M. Morrel and gave Julie a letter and a diamond. The text connects him with the name Sinbad the Sailor and suggests he may be Edmond Dantès, though the Morrels do not know his identity.

Unnamed maid of Valentine

Also known as the too-devoted maid

Valentine’s attendant, whom Valentine says watches her closely.

Unnamed watchful stepmother’s attendants

Also known as the watchful stepmother

A phrase Valentine uses for the people keeping watch over her; the passage does not identify them individually.

Unnamed Parisian gardener

Also known as the gardener

The role Maximilian adopts by renting a neglected plot next to the Villefort garden, allowing him to meet Valentine discreetly.

Unnamed female attendants of Haydée

Also known as the three female attendants · the French attendants · the Greek servants

Women assigned to attend Haydée in her private apartments. The Count instructs that the French attendants should not question her and that the Greek servants should not communicate with them.

Unnamed groom of Baron Danglars

Also known as the groom · Danglars’s groom

Baron Danglars’s groom, who asks the concierge whether the Count is home and delivers Danglars’s card.

Unnamed coachman of Baron Danglars

Also known as Danglars’s coachman

The coachman who drives Baron Danglars and whose livery and carriage are observed by the Count.

Unnamed coachman of Madame de Villefort

Also known as the coachman · the terrified coachman

The coachman driving Héloïse de Villefort and her son when their horses run away. He leaps from the carriage during Ali’s rescue.

Unnamed members of the Chambers

Also known as Danglars’s colleagues · the members of one or the other Chamber

Legislators attending Danglars’s railroad committee meeting when he announces the Count’s unlimited credit.

Unnamed railroad committee

Also known as the committee

A committee presided over by Danglars, whose meeting is nearly over when the Count arrives.

Unnamed bankers of Thomson & French

Also known as the Roman bankers · Thomson & French

The Roman banking house that grants the Count of Monte Cristo unlimited credit with Danglars. Their credit letters are backed by additional letters from banks in Vienna and London.

Unnamed banker of Arstein & Eskeles

Also known as Baron Rothschild

The banker addressed by a letter of credit from Arstein & Eskeles of Vienna, which the Count presents to Danglars as additional assurance.

Unnamed banker of Baring

Also known as M. Lafitte

The banker upon whom Baring of London draws a letter of credit for the Count of Monte Cristo.

Unnamed favorite attendant of Madame Danglars

Also known as the favorite attendant · her maid

Madame Danglars’s attendant, who tells her that her dappled gray horses have been removed from the stables.

Unnamed visitors to the Villefort residence

Also known as inquiring friends · the crowd of visitors

People who leave their names at Héloïse de Villefort’s home after the runaway carriage incident, hoping to hear her account.

Unnamed young woman and child in the runaway carriage

Also known as the lady and child

A woman and a child of about seven or eight who are trapped in a carriage drawn by runaway horses. They are Héloïse de Villefort and her son Edward.

Unnamed daughter of Villefort’s first marriage

Also known as the daughter by his first marriage · the daughter

Villefort’s daughter from his first marriage, now nearly eighteen. She lives in his household with his second wife, Héloïse.

Unnamed Ranelagh onlookers

Also known as those who saw it pass · the crowd

People who witness the runaway carriage racing through the road and cry out in alarm.

Unnamed visitors to the de Villefort household

Also known as inquiring friends

Friends and visitors who seek out Madame de Villefort after her escape to hear the story.

Unnamed French footman of the Count

Also known as the footman · the French footman

A servant in the Count of Monte Cristo’s household who attends him at his Paris residence.

Unnamed servant of the Count of Monte Cristo

Also known as the servant in showy livery

A liveried servant at Danglars’s house who reports that the baroness has visitors and later announces that she is ready to receive the Count.

Unnamed tenants of Madame de Villefort

Also known as the guests

Visitors with Madame de Villefort when Danglars asks whether the Count minds meeting them; they are not individually identified.

Unnamed family members of the Count of Monte Cristo

Also known as the family · the testator

The Count claims that his fortune came from a family treasure that could not be used until a period set by a testator had passed. Their names and identities are not given.

Unnamed authors of the letter from Thomson & French

Also known as the people who wrote

The representatives of Thomson & French who write the Count’s letter of unlimited credit to Danglars.

Unnamed woman driving the dappled grays

Also known as the young woman in the carriage · the lady

A woman who is riding in a carriage with a child when the dappled gray horses run away. She is Héloïse de Villefort.

Unnamed child in the runaway carriage

Also known as the child · the little boy

A boy about seven or eight riding with Héloïse de Villefort when the dappled gray horses run away. He is Edward de Villefort.

Unnamed abbé prisoner

Also known as the abbé · the old abbé · Abbé Faria · Faria · Number 27

An Italian scholar and former secretary to Cardinal Spada, imprisoned at the Château d’If and a friend and teacher to Edmond. He is not the Abbé Busoni mentioned in this passage.

Unnamed young woman known as the Baroness

Also known as the Baroness · the young woman · Villefort’s lover

A young widow who rented the Auteuil house from the Marquis de Saint-Méran and secretly met Villefort there. Bertuccio saw she was pregnant; the passage does not give her name.

Assunta

Also known as Bertuccio’s sister-in-law · Benedetto’s foster-mother · mother Assunta

Bertuccio’s sister-in-law and widow of his murdered brother. She reclaimed the newborn Bertuccio rescued and raised him as Benedetto; Benedetto later tortured her with two companions and stole her money, and she died from her burns.

Unnamed elder brother of Bertuccio

Also known as Bertuccio’s brother · the lieutenant

Bertuccio’s elder brother, a lieutenant in a Corsican regiment who served the emperor and was wounded at Waterloo. He was murdered in Nîmes during the royalist massacres of 1815, prompting Bertuccio’s vendetta against Villefort.

Unnamed jeweller known as M. Joannes

Also known as M. Joannes · Joannes · the jeweller · the Paris jeweller · the stranger

A Paris jeweller visiting the Beaucaire fair who buys Edmond’s diamond from Caderousse and La Carconte. Caderousse and La Carconte murder him that night and take the diamond and money; Bertuccio is wrongly arrested for the crime.

Gaspard Caderousse’s wife

Also known as Madeleine Radelle · La Carconte · the wife · his wife · Carconte

Caderousse’s sickly wife, known by the name of her village, Carconte. She urged Caderousse to murder the jeweller for his money and was shot by him during the robbery.

Unnamed innkeeper of Nîmes

Also known as the innkeeper · Bertuccio’s colleague

An innkeeper who was expecting Bertuccio’s brother to leave money for him in Nîmes. He later sold his roadside establishment to Caderousse.

Unnamed wife of Wasilio

Also known as Wasilio’s wife · the neighbor

A neighbor who, after Assunta was attacked, summoned the public authorities to open the house and discover her grievously burned.

Wasilio

Also known as the neighbor

A Corsican neighbor of Bertuccio and Assunta who complained that a louis had gone missing from his purse. His wife was the only nearby witness available when Assunta was attacked.

Trestaillon

Also known as Trestaillon

One of three brigands named in Bertuccio’s account of the 1815 massacres in southern France, in which people suspected of Bonapartism were murdered.

Truphemy

Also known as Truphemy

One of three brigands named in Bertuccio’s account of the 1815 massacres in southern France, in which people suspected of Bonapartism were murdered.

Graffan

Also known as Graffan

One of three brigands named in Bertuccio’s account of the 1815 massacres in southern France, in which people suspected of Bonapartism were murdered.

Unnamed custom-house officers

Also known as customs-officers · the officers

Officials who surround Bertuccio’s smuggling vessel on the Rhône in 1829. One tracks him to Caderousse’s inn and summons others, who arrive after the jeweller’s murder and arrest Bertuccio.

Unnamed gendarmes

Also known as the gendarmes · the gendarme

Armed officers who accompany the custom-house officers to Caderousse’s inn and arrest Bertuccio after the jeweller’s murder.

Unnamed cabin-boy

Also known as the little cabin-boy · the boy

A cabin-boy aboard Bertuccio’s smuggling vessel who alerts its occupants that custom-house officers are approaching.

Unnamed innkeeper on the road from Bellegarde to Beaucaire

Also known as the former innkeeper · the old landlord

A former smuggling contact who established a tavern on the road from Bellegarde to Beaucaire and later sold it to Caderousse.

Unnamed judge at Nîmes

Also known as the magistrate · the judge

The magistrate handling Bertuccio’s case after his arrest for the jeweller’s murder. He investigated Bertuccio’s claim that Abbé Busoni could exculpate him and released him after Caderousse confessed.

Unnamed two companions of Benedetto

Also known as his boon companions · the two

Two dissolute young men who accompanied Benedetto when he attacked Assunta to force her to reveal where her money was hidden.

Unnamed young men of Bastia

Also known as Benedetto’s associates · his companions

Older, disreputable companions Benedetto chose as a boy; some threatened with prosecution for their pranks.

Unnamed boatman

Also known as the boatman

A boatman who passed through Rogliano with monkeys, inspiring young Benedetto’s desire to have one.

Unnamed former innkeeper from Nîmes

Also known as the innkeeper from Nîmes

A Nîmes innkeeper and smuggling contact who set up a tavern on the road from Bellegarde to Beaucaire, later selling it to Caderousse.

Unnamed Greek companion of the Count

Also known as the Greek mistress

A woman whom Albert saw at the theatre and heard while breakfasting with the Count of Monte Cristo. The passage does not give her name.

Unnamed women in the Count’s cave

Also known as the women · the statues

Women—or possibly statues, as Franz cannot be sure—who attended Franz in the Count’s cavern after he had taken hashish.

Pius VII

Also known as the Emperor’s predecessor

A former pope whose tiara, according to the Count of Monte Cristo, held an emerald given by Napoleon.

Peppino

Also known as poor Peppino · Rocca Priori

A shepherd who furnished provisions to the bandits and was sentenced to beheading in Rome. The Count of Monte Cristo confirms that he may have secured Peppino’s pardon.

Unnamed French ambassador or consul

Also known as the ambassadors · the consuls · our poor agents

French diplomatic agents whom Albert criticizes for failing to inform travellers about dangers abroad; Debray defends their limited means.

Mehemet Ali

Also known as Mehemet Ali

A ruler whose cause Albert jokes he would not support as a French ambassador, for fear the Sultan would have him strangled.

Unnamed executioner

Also known as the executioner

The executioner at the Roman spectacle Albert attended with the Count. Albert says the Count’s calm discussion of torture affected him more than the execution itself.

Unnamed concierge of the Auteuil house

Also known as the concierge · the keeper of the house

The caretaker at the house at 28 Rue de la Fontaine in Auteuil. He says its former owner was the Marquis de Saint-Méran.

Tullia

Also known as Tullia

A historical woman invoked by Albert as an imagined ancestor of the masked woman who attracted him in Rome.

Poppaea

Also known as Poppæa

A historical woman invoked by Albert as an imagined ancestor of the masked woman who attracted him in Rome.

Ariosto

Also known as the second Ariosto

A poet whom Beauchamp invokes when joking that the Count’s adventures sound like a romance.

Cacus

Also known as Cacus

A mythic opponent of Hercules, invoked by Château-Renaud in a comparison to Albert’s rescuer.

Perseus

Also known as a Perseus

The mythic hero invoked by Château-Renaud as a comparison for the man who freed Albert.

Andromeda

Also known as Andromeda

The mythic woman rescued by Perseus, invoked by Château-Renaud in a comparison to Albert’s rescue.

Esau

Also known as Esau

A biblical figure whom Beauchamp invokes when joking that Albert might have sold his soul to the Count.

Manfred

Also known as Manfred

A Byronic hero Albert uses as an example of the kind of mysterious, tragic figure he thinks the Count may resemble.

Lara

Also known as Lara

A Byronic hero Albert uses as an example of the kind of mysterious, tragic figure he thinks the Count may resemble.

Werner

Also known as Werner

A Byronic hero Albert uses as an example of the kind of mysterious, tragic figure he thinks the Count may resemble.

Captain Leclere

Also known as Leclere · the late Captain Leclere

The deceased captain of the Pharaon, who died of brain fever during the voyage. He entrusted Edmond with a packet for Marshal Bertrand on Elba and directed him to carry a letter onward to Paris.

The Pharaon's crew

Also known as the crew · the sailors

The sailors aboard the Pharaon, who admire Edmond and rejoice at the prospect of his becoming captain.

Policar Morrel

Also known as Policar

M. Morrel’s uncle, a former captain who served in the same regiment as the Emperor.

Mercédès’s mother

Also known as her mother

Mercédès’s deceased mother, who had approved Fernand’s hopes of marrying her daughter.

Mercédès’s father

Also known as her father

Mercédès’s deceased father, whose poor inheritance passed first to her mother and then to Mercédès.

Père Pamphile

A person at La Réserve who confirms that Edmond has gone to the Catalans.

Unnamed waiter

Also known as the waiter

A waiter at La Réserve who brings pen, ink, and paper for Danglars.

Mayor of Marseilles

Also known as the Mayor

The mayor, who is expected at the city hall to conduct the formalities for Edmond and Mercédès’s marriage. He later gives an English agent information about M. Morrel’s reputation and finances.

Unnamed magistrate

Also known as the magistrate

The official who arrives with soldiers at Edmond’s wedding feast and arrests him on suspicion of political conspiracy.

Unnamed commissary of police

Also known as the commissary

The police official who meets Villefort, reports on Edmond’s arrest, and oversees his transfer into prison custody.

Comte de Salvieux

Also known as the count

An old friend of the Marquis de Saint-Méran and chamberlain to the Comte d’Artois. He tells the company that Louis XVIII praised Villefort and approved his engagement, and recommends Villefort to the Duc de Blacas.

Unnamed daughter of the Comte de Salvieux

Also known as the beautiful young creature · the young lady

The Comte de Salvieux’s daughter and a cherished friend of Renée. She hopes to attend a famous trial, finding court proceedings entertaining.

Murat

Also known as the usurper’s brother-in-law

A ruler in Naples and Napoleon’s brother-in-law. An anonymous accusation claims Edmond carried a letter from Murat to Napoleon.

Josephine

Napoleon’s former wife, whose divorce is mentioned in conversation at the Saint-Méran wedding feast.

Robespierre

A revolutionary leader invoked during a political discussion between Villefort and the Marquise de Saint-Méran. Noirtier says he escaped Robespierre’s agents during the Revolution.

Oliver Cromwell

Also known as Cromwell

A historical ruler whom Villefort cites as an example of a fallen leader retaining supporters. Faria later uses him as an example in reflections on political change.

Duc d’Enghien

Also known as the poor Duc d’Enghien

A duke whose execution is mentioned by the Comte de Salvieux during a discussion of political treaties.

Comte d’Artois

Also known as the count

A royal prince whom the Comte de Salvieux serves as chamberlain.

Unnamed police secretary

Also known as the secretary

The king’s attorney’s secretary, who opens the anonymous accusation during his superior’s absence and orders Edmond’s arrest.

Unnamed under-jailer

Also known as the under-jailer · the jailer

A sullen prison attendant at the Château d’If who brings Edmond to his cell and later checks on him. When Edmond demands to see the governor and threatens him, the attendant has him moved to a dungeon.

Prison governor

Also known as the governor

The governor of the Château d’If, who orders Edmond moved to a dungeon and later visits the prisoners. He oversees Faria’s death formalities and orders the body placed in a burial sack.

Unnamed corporal

Also known as the corporal

A corporal at the Château d’If who leads four soldiers in transferring Edmond to a dungeon on the governor’s orders.

Unnamed soldiers

Also known as the soldiers · two soldiers

Soldiers at the Château d’If who accompany the inspector-general on his visit to the dungeons; four of them also transfer Edmond to the lower tier.

Unnamed inspector-general of prisons

Also known as the inspector

A government official who visits the Château d’If and inspects its prisoners, including Edmond and Faria. He promises to examine Edmond’s case but leaves a note saying nothing can be done.

Duc de Blacas

Also known as M. de Blacas · the duke · De Blacas

A devoted royalist courtier who warns Louis XVIII of a possible Bonapartist threat and brings Villefort to the king. He arranges Villefort’s audience and forwards his Legion of Honor brevet.

Baron Dandré

Also known as M. Dandré · the minister of police · the baron

Louis XVIII’s minister of police, who initially dismisses warnings about Napoleon and then reports that Napoleon has landed in France. He is blamed for the government’s failure to anticipate the return.

M. de Brézé

Also known as the master of ceremonies

The master of ceremonies at court, who objects to Villefort entering before the king in dusty, non-courtly clothes.

Unnamed chamberlain-in-waiting

Also known as the chamberlain-in-waiting

A court official who announces Baron Dandré’s arrival to Louis XVIII.

General Quesnel

Also known as the general

A general who leaves a Bonapartist club meeting and is later found dead in the Seine. Noirtier explains that Quesnel learned of Napoleon’s planned return, swore allegiance to the conspirators, and was allowed to leave.

General Quesnel’s valet

Also known as the servant

The general’s valet, who was present when a stranger arranged to meet Quesnel in the Rue Saint-Jacques and provides the police with the stranger’s description.

Unnamed new governor

Also known as the new governor

The governor who replaces the previous governor of the Château d’If after the latter is transferred to Ham. He identifies prisoners by cell number and refuses Edmond’s request for a companion.

Unnamed new jailer

Also known as the new jailer · the new attendant

The taciturn jailer assigned to Edmond after the previous governor and jailer leave the Château d’If. He brings Edmond food and shows occasional kindness, including bringing broth and white bread when Edmond appears ill.

Archimedes

An ancient mathematician invoked in a comparison to Faria, who remains absorbed in his calculations when the inspector enters his cell.

Marcus Claudius Marcellus

Also known as Marcellus

A Roman general referenced as the soldier who killed Archimedes.

Caligula

A Roman emperor mentioned as an example of a ruler who might have freed Faria in exchange for his treasure.

Isaac Newton

Also known as Newton

A natural philosopher whose system Faria says his calculations might change.

Niccolò Machiavelli

Also known as Machiavelli

A political thinker whom Faria cites as having envisioned a unified Italy and whose works he has studied.

Pope Clement VII

Also known as Clement VII

A pope whom Faria cites as part of the unsuccessful historical effort to unite Italy.

Antoine Lavoisier

Also known as Lavoisier

A chemist whom Faria says he knows.

Duc de Beaufort

A historical prisoner whose escape from the Château de Vincennes is cited by Faria as a carefully planned successful escape.

Abbé Dubuquoi

A historical prisoner whose escape from For l’Evêque is cited by Faria as a carefully planned successful escape.

Latude

A historical prisoner whose escape from the Bastille is cited by Faria as a carefully planned successful escape.

Thucydides

An ancient historian whose work Faria says he can recite from memory.

Xenophon

An ancient historian whose work Faria says he can recite from memory.

Plutarch

An ancient biographer and historian whose work Faria says he can recite from memory.

Titus Livius

A Roman historian whose work Faria says he can recite from memory.

Tacitus

A Roman historian whose work Faria says he can recite from memory.

Strada

A historian whose work Faria says he can recite from memory.

Jornandes

A historian whose work Faria says he can recite from memory.

Michel de Montaigne

Also known as Montaigne

A philosopher and essayist whose work Faria says he can recite from memory.

Baruch Spinoza

Also known as Spinoza

A philosopher whose work Faria says he can recite from memory.

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

Also known as Bossuet

A French bishop and writer whose work Faria says he can recite from memory.

Archbishop Roger

A figure in Dante’s Inferno whose skull Ugolino is said to devour.

Machiavelli’s Cæsar Borgia

Also known as Cæsar Borgia

A reference in Faria’s account of political plans for a unified Italy; the text identifies him as the figure he hoped would serve as his Cæsar Borgia.

René Descartes

Also known as Descartes

A philosopher whose theory of pressure and impulsion is invoked in a discussion of social ambition and competing interests.

Cardinal Spada

Also known as Cæsar Spada

A wealthy Roman nobleman elevated to cardinal by Pope Alexander VI. Fearing the pope’s designs, he writes a will naming his nephew Guido sole heir and hiding the location of his treasure on Monte Cristo.

Giovanni Rospigliosi

Also known as Rospigliosi · Cardinal Rospigliosi

A wealthy churchman made a cardinal by Pope Alexander VI. He is poisoned with Cardinal Spada and his fortune is seized.

Spada’s nephew

Also known as the young captain · the nephew

Cardinal Spada’s promising young nephew, whom Spada names as his heir. He is poisoned at the dinner arranged by the pope and Cesare Borgia; his wife survives him.

Spada’s nephew’s wife

Also known as his wife

The wife of Cardinal Spada’s nephew. Before dying, her husband urges her to search among his uncle’s papers for a will.

Pope Alexander VI’s butler

Also known as the pope’s butler

An unnamed servant who serves the poisoned wine to Cardinal Spada’s nephew.

Guido Spada

Also known as Guido

The nephew named in Cardinal Cæsar Spada’s recovered will as his sole heir. Faria reconstructs the will from the fire-revealed fragments.

Cardinal Caprara

Also known as Caprara

A cardinal named in Cardinal Spada’s will as having been poisoned.

Cardinal Bentivoglio

Also known as Bentivoglio

A cardinal named in Cardinal Spada’s will as having been poisoned.

Unnamed servant of Cardinal Spada

Also known as the servant

A servant whom Cardinal Spada sends to find his nephew before the dinner at San Pierdarena; the servant fails to locate him.

Unnamed prison doctor

Also known as the doctor

A doctor called to examine Faria after his death at the Château d’If. He confirms the death and performs the required test with heated irons.

Unnamed officer at the Château d’If

Also known as the officer

An officer accompanying the governor during the examination and handling of Faria’s body.

Unnamed prison attendants

Also known as the attendants · turnkeys

Prison staff who assist the governor and doctor after Faria dies, moving his body and preparing it for burial in a sack.

Chaplain of the Château d’If

Also known as the chaplain

The château’s chaplain, who is away on leave in Hyères when Faria dies.

Unnamed first grave-digger

Also known as the first bearer · the man who asks whether the knot is tied

One of the men tasked with carrying Faria’s presumed corpse from the Château d’If. He helps tie a shot to Edmond’s feet and cast him into the sea.

Unnamed second grave-digger

Also known as the second bearer · the man who ties the knot

One of the men tasked with carrying Faria’s presumed corpse from the Château d’If. He ties a heavy shot to Edmond’s feet before the men throw him into the sea.

Unnamed torch-bearing grave-digger

Also known as the man with the torch

A third man who accompanies the two bearers during Faria’s supposed burial, carrying a torch.

Unnamed wrecked fishing-boat sailors

Also known as the five sailors · the wrecked sailors

Five sailors on a fishing boat wrecked near Tiboulen during the storm. Edmond sees them clinging to the damaged vessel and then sees them among the waves; the passage does not individually distinguish them.

Captain Baldi

Also known as the captain · the patron · the master · the pilot · the old sailor · the Genoese

The old Genoese captain and master of the smuggling tartan La Jeune Amélie. He rescues Edmond from the sea, takes him on as a sailor, and later leaves him on Monte Cristo when Edmond feigns injury.

Unnamed tartan crew members

Also known as the four seamen · the sailors · the steersman · the two rowers

The sailors serving aboard La Jeune Amélie with Captain Baldi and Jacopo. They help rescue Edmond, sail with him, and later leave him on Monte Cristo to recover.

Unnamed Leghorn barber

Also known as the barber

A barber in St. Ferdinand Street, Leghorn, who cuts Edmond’s hair and beard after his escape.

Unnamed customs officer

Also known as the customs officer

A customs officer wounded to death during a smuggling skirmish involving La Jeune Amélie.

Unnamed old Sardinian women

Also known as the old women

Sardinian women who gather and sell herbs to smugglers; the herbs help close Edmond’s shoulder wound.

Unnamed smugglers at the Leghorn tavern

Also known as the leading smugglers · the free-traders

Smugglers who gather in a Leghorn tavern to discuss a cargo exchange and agree to use Monte Cristo as a landing place.

Unnamed captain of the wrecked fishing boat

Also known as their captain

The captain of the fishing boat wrecked in the storm near Tiboulen. Edmond says that the captain and the rest of his crew were lost.

Unnamed smugglers’ boat crew

Also known as the crew of the boat that arrived

The crew of the other boat that comes to Monte Cristo to take part in the planned cargo landing.

Unnamed Leghorn diamond dealer

Also known as the Jew · the cunning purchaser

A Jewish dealer in precious stones in Leghorn who buys four of Edmond’s diamonds for five thousand francs each.

Unnamed English yacht owner

Also known as the Englishman · the owner of the yacht

An Englishman who commissions a yacht from a Genoese builder, then agrees to sell it to Edmond before his return from Switzerland.

Unnamed Genoese shipbuilder

Also known as the Genoese builder · the builder

The builder of the yacht intended for an Englishman. He sells it to Edmond and agrees to construct concealed compartments in its cabin.

Unnamed gendarme

Also known as the gendarme

A gendarme accompanying the officers who board Edmond’s yacht in Marseilles to check its bill of health.

Unnamed former Pharaon sailor

Also known as the sailor · the honest fellow

A former member of the Pharaon’s crew whom Edmond meets in Marseilles. He fails to recognize Edmond and returns an accidental overpayment.

Unnamed concierge

Also known as the concierge · the man

The concierge of Edmond’s former family house in the Allées de Meilhan, who helps him visit the rooms once occupied by his father.

Unnamed young couple

Also known as the tenants · the present occupants

A newly married couple renting the rooms that once belonged to Edmond’s father. They respectfully leave Edmond alone with his grief and later receive the landlord’s offer of other rooms.

Unnamed fisherman’s family

Also known as the family

A family in the Catalan village whom Edmond visits to ask after people from his past. They receive a new fishing boat, nets, and a tender from him.

Trinette

Also known as the chambermaid

The chambermaid employed at Caderousse’s roadside inn.

Pecaud

Also known as the hostler

The hostler employed at Caderousse’s roadside inn.

The abbé visiting Caderousse

Also known as the priest · the guest · the stranger

An Italian-speaking priest who visits Caderousse at the Pont du Gard inn, claims to be carrying out Edmond’s final wishes, and gives Caderousse Edmond’s diamond in exchange for Morrel’s purse. The passage does not state his name.

Margotin

Also known as the huge black dog · the dog

Caderousse’s large black dog, who rushes at the visiting priest and later settles beside him.

Unnamed doctor attending Edmond’s father

Also known as the doctor

The doctor summoned by M. Morrel to examine Edmond’s father. He diagnoses inflammation of the bowels and prescribes a restricted diet, not realizing that the old man is starving.

Unnamed landlord of the Allées de Meilhan house

Also known as the landlord · the owner

The owner of the house where Edmond’s father lived, who seeks overdue rent from the old man and later sells the property to Edmond.

Unnamed general who defects to the English

Also known as the general

A French general serving during the Hundred Days who secretly corresponds with the enemy and offers Fernand the chance to desert with him. Fernand follows him, and the Bourbons later reward them.

Unnamed valet-de-chambre of Fernand

Also known as his valet

Fernand’s valet, who gives the impoverished Caderousse a hundred francs on Fernand’s behalf.

Unnamed Morcerf son

Also known as little Albert · Albert

The son of Fernand and Mercédès, whom Mercédès attends to and educates in Perpignan during the Spanish war. He is Albert de Morcerf.

Unnamed wife of M. Morrel

Also known as his wife

M. Morrel’s wife, whom Caderousse describes as steadfast and angelic through the family’s misfortunes.

Unnamed daughter of M. Morrel

Also known as his daughter

M. Morrel’s daughter, who was preparing to marry the man she loved when her family’s financial ruin obstructed the match.

Unnamed fiancé of M. Morrel’s daughter

Also known as the man she loved

The man loved by M. Morrel’s daughter, whose family will not allow him to marry into a ruined household. He is Emmanuel.

Unnamed French banker

Also known as the banker

The Spanish bank owner whose daughter Danglars marries; she later dies, leaving him a widower.

M. de Servieux

Also known as de Servieux

A king’s chamberlain in high favor at court and the father of Madame de Nargonne.

Unnamed English poet

Also known as the English poet

The unnamed poet whose line about woman’s frailty the visiting abbé quotes when hearing that Mercédès eventually married Fernand.

Unnamed daughter of M. de Boville

Also known as his daughter

M. de Boville’s daughter, whose dowry of 200,000 francs is invested with Morrel and who is due to marry.

Unnamed young clerk in love with M. Morrel’s daughter

Also known as the young man · Emmanuel

A young clerk at Morrel & Son who remains loyal to the family through its financial troubles and loves Julie Morrel. He later marries Julie.

Unnamed Pharaon captain

Also known as the captain

The captain of the Pharaon who survives its wreck and stays behind sick at Palma. Identified by Penelon as Captain Gaumard.

Unnamed Pharaon crew survivors

Also known as the eight sailors · the sailors

The sailors who escape the sinking Pharaon in a boat and are rescued by La Gironde. The passage does not distinguish them individually.

The crew of La Gironde

Also known as the crew of the vessel that has just entered the harbor

The crew of the Bordeaux ship La Gironde, which rescues the Pharaon’s survivors after three days at sea.

Captain Gaumard

Also known as Gaumard · the captain

Captain of the Pharaon during its final voyage. He acts bravely during the storm, survives the wreck, and later commands the replacement Pharaon.

Unnamed messenger to Julie Morrel

Also known as the messenger · the man with a strong Italian accent

An unidentified man who delivers Sinbad the Sailor’s letter directing Julie to retrieve the purse at the Allées de Meilhan.

Signor Pastrini

Also known as Pastrini

The proprietor of the Hôtel de Londres in Rome, who arranges rooms for Albert and Franz and helps secure their Carnival disguises.

Unnamed sailboat captain of Franz’s voyage

Also known as the captain

The captain of the sailboat Franz takes from Leghorn to Elba and Monte Cristo. He warns Franz that the island is used by smugglers and pirates.

Gaetano

Also known as the captain · the patron

The captain of the boat carrying Franz to Monte Cristo. He explains the island’s use by smugglers and pirates, scouts their landing, and secures the party’s welcome.

Unnamed sailors aboard Gaetano’s boat

Also known as the four sailors · the sailors · the mariners · the pilot

The four sailors who accompany Franz and Gaetano toward Monte Cristo. They keep watch, row ashore, and help guide Franz to his host.

Unnamed Monte Cristo smugglers

Also known as the Spanish smugglers · the men seated round the fire · the chief’s men

Smugglers gathered around a fire on Monte Cristo, where they welcome Franz and share a meal. The passage does not individually identify them.

Unnamed smuggler sentinel

Also known as the sentinel · the man on the beach

An armed smuggler standing watch at the Monte Cristo landing place. He challenges Gaetano’s boat and directs the newcomers to the bivouac.

Unnamed Corsican bandits

Also known as the two Corsican bandits

Two pursued Corsican bandits whom Sinbad’s party is helping to land safely. The passage does not identify them individually.

Cama

Also known as the pilot of the Saint Ferdinand

A pilot who has visited Sinbad’s hidden cavern and told others of its extraordinary riches.

Giovanni

A member of the yacht’s crew who lights a torch for Franz’s search of the grotto.

Teresa

An orphaned shepherd girl from Valmontone who grows up with Luigi Vampa and becomes his beloved companion. She joins him as he becomes a bandit.

Cucumetto

Also known as the celebrated Cucumetto · the captain

A notorious bandit chief who leads a troop in the mountains near Rome. He abducts Rita, violates her, and is later killed by Vampa while attempting to abduct Teresa.

Carlini

A bandit in Cucumetto’s troop who loves Rita and has served the chief faithfully. After Cucumetto violates Rita, Carlini kills her to spare her further abuse; Rita’s father embraces him, but Cucumetto later arranges his death.

Rita

A young woman abducted by Cucumetto, whose wealthy father is expected to pay a ransom. Carlini loves her; after Cucumetto violates her, Carlini kills her to spare her from the band.

Diavolaccio

A bandit in Cucumetto’s troop whose name is drawn in the lot to claim Rita. He carries her body to the band’s fire after Carlini kills her.

Unnamed daughter of the surveyor of Frosinone

Also known as the young girl · the prisoner

A young woman abducted by Cucumetto before the events involving Rita. The passage describes her as the daughter of a Frosinone surveyor but does not give her name.

Unnamed father of the abducted girl

Also known as her father

A surveyor of Frosinone and father of a girl abducted by Cucumetto. His wealth makes a ransom possible.

Unnamed shepherd messenger

Also known as the young shepherd · the boy

A shepherd whom Carlini recruits to carry Rita’s ransom letter to her father in Frosinone.

Rita’s father

Also known as the old man · the father

Rita’s father, who brings her ransom in person after her abduction. Learning she is dead, he forgives Carlini, helps bury her, and later hangs himself at her grave.

Unnamed Roman carbineers

Also known as the carbineers

Roman soldiers who pursue Cucumetto and later encounter his band. Cucumetto kills Carlini during a clash with them.

Unnamed brigadier

Also known as the brigadier

The carbineers’ brigadier, who questions Luigi and Teresa while searching for Cucumetto and offers a reward for his capture.

Unnamed lieutenant of Cucumetto’s band

Also known as the lieutenant

The bandit who commands Cucumetto’s troop in the chief’s absence. He questions Vampa’s claim to leadership before the band elects him captain.

Unnamed sentinel at Rocca Bianca

Also known as the sentinel · the sentry · the bandit

A bandit who guards the approach to the troop’s hideout at Rocca Bianca. He challenges Luigi Vampa and Teresa, then signals the band to let them pass.

Count of San-Felice

Also known as the count

A wealthy Roman nobleman who hosts a masked ball for his daughter Carmela. He permits Teresa and Luigi to attend among the servants and peasants.

Carmela

Also known as the Count of San-Felice’s daughter · the young Countess of San-Felice

The beloved daughter of the Count of San-Felice, the same age and build as Teresa. She invites Teresa to dance at her father’s ball and is later rescued from the burning villa by Luigi Vampa.

Unnamed cavalier at the San-Felice ball

Also known as Teresa’s cavalier · the young man

A well-looking young man who dances with Teresa at the Count of San-Felice’s ball and tells her she could obtain the fine costume she admires by speaking one word.

Unnamed traveller who calls himself Sinbad the Sailor

Also known as the traveller · the stranger

A wealthy-looking traveller on horseback who meets Luigi Vampa, offers Teresa two Venetian sequins, and trades them for a handmade poniard. He gives Vampa the name Sinbad the Sailor; Franz recognizes this as Edmond Dantès’s assumed name.

Unnamed ravisher of Teresa

Also known as the ravisher · the man carrying off Teresa

A man who carries Teresa away from the grotto after Cucumetto abducts her. Vampa shoots him, and he is revealed to be Cucumetto.

Unnamed lieutenant in command after Cucumetto’s death

Also known as the young man who was in command in the chief’s absence · the lieutenant

A bandit who leads Cucumetto’s troop after the chief is absent. He hears Vampa’s claim, but the band elects Vampa as its captain.

Unnamed coachman

Also known as the coachman

The coachman who announces that the carriage is ready to take Franz and Albert to the Colosseum.

Unnamed Colosseum cicerone

Also known as the cicerone · the special guide

A guide who appears at the Colosseum and takes visitors through the monument.

Unnamed hotel guide

Also known as the usual guide from the hotel · the ordinary cicerone

The guide from Albert and Franz’s hotel who accompanies them to the Colosseum.

Unnamed stranger at the Colosseum

Also known as the person in the mantle · the stranger in the cloak · the cavalier in the cloak

A mysterious, high-ranking man who meets a Trastevere bandit in the Colosseum and arranges a plan to free Peppino. Franz recognizes his voice as that of Edmond, his Monte Cristo host, Sinbad the Sailor.

Unnamed Trastevere bandit

Also known as the man in the Transtevere costume · the Transteverin · the man

A bandit who meets the mysterious stranger in the Colosseum. He plans to rescue Peppino by force, but agrees to prepare his men while the stranger seeks a reprieve through bribery.

Beppo

Also known as the boy disguised as a peasant girl · the peasant girl at San Giacomo

A fifteen-year-old boy and prison employee at the Castle of St. Angelo, paid by the Trastevere bandit to report what happens inside. During the Roman Carnival, he disguises himself as a peasant girl and helps lure Albert into Vampa’s hands.

Unnamed prisoner sentenced to beheading

Also known as the other sufferer · the culprit sentenced to be decapitato

A prisoner due to be executed alongside Peppino at Rome’s festival. The passage gives no name or further identifying details.

Unnamed priest murdered by a prisoner

Also known as the priest who brought him up

A priest who raised one of the condemned men and was murdered by him; the murderer is sentenced to be executed by mazzolato.

Unnamed execution officer

Also known as the officer directing the execution

The official who directs Peppino’s execution and is meant to receive a reprieve delivered by a disguised penitent friar.

Unnamed penitent friar messenger

Also known as the penitent friar

One of the Trastevere bandit’s men, whom the stranger proposes disguising as a friar so he can deliver a reprieve to the execution officer.

Unnamed young man seated with Countess G——

Also known as the young man in the countess’s box

A young man sitting beside Countess G—— at the opera who rises to give his seat to Franz and Albert.

Unnamed Albanian woman

Also known as the beautiful Greek · the Greek girl · the fair Albanian · the blue domino

A striking woman at the Teatro Argentina who wears Greek dress and attends performances regularly. Franz identifies her as the blue domino at the Count’s Rospoli Palace window; she remains unidentified.

Unnamed companion of the Albanian woman

Also known as her husband · the sleeper · the gentleman in the opposite box · the vampire

A ghastly pale man who accompanies the Albanian woman at the opera and initially appears to sleep through the performance. His identity is not known to Franz, though the countess speculates that he is a vampire.

Unnamed black servant of the Albanian woman

Also known as the black servant

A servant who sometimes accompanies the Albanian woman to the opera.

Henri

A ballet master who has established a reputation in Italy for his taste and skill in choreography.

Coselli

An Italian opera singer performing in Parisina at the Teatro Argentina.

Moriani

A renowned Italian vocalist performing in Parisina at the Teatro Argentina.

La Specchia

A renowned Italian vocalist and actor performing in Parisina at the Teatro Argentina.

Gaetano Donizetti

Also known as Donizetti

The composer of the opera Parisina, whose music Franz admires.

Lord Byron

Also known as Byron

A poet whom Countess G—— says believed in vampires and described them to her.

Unnamed count’s servant

Also known as the richly liveried servant · the domestic

A well-dressed servant of the Count of Monte Cristo who delivers the Count’s cards to Albert and Franz and admits them to his apartments.

Prince Lobanieff

A prince who had rented the viewing window at the Piazza del Popolo before the Count of Monte Cristo secured it for his guests.

Andrea Rondolo

Also known as Andrea

A condemned man convicted of murdering Don César Torlini, the priest who raised him. He is executed by mazzolata in the Piazza del Popolo.

Don César Torlini

Also known as Canon Don César Torlini

A canon of the church of St. John Lateran who raised Andrea Rondolo like a son. Andrea murders him with a log.

Unnamed executioner’s assistants

Also known as the two assistants

Two men who help the executioner at the Piazza del Popolo. They seize Andrea, restrain him on the scaffold, and assist in carrying out his execution.

Castaing

A man whose execution Albert says he witnessed in Paris.

Unnamed woman who sends Albert violets

Also known as the fair peasant · the fair unknown · the fair incognita · the heroine of the bouquet

An unidentified woman in a carriage who flirts with Albert during the Roman Carnival by sending him violets and later a coded invitation. Albert believes she belongs to the aristocracy.

Unnamed priest delivering Peppino’s pardon

Also known as the priest who arrives in haste

A priest who forces his way through the soldiers at the Piazza del Popolo and hands the brotherhood’s chief a document pardoning Peppino.

Duke of Bracciano

Also known as the duke

A Roman nobleman who hosts a celebrated ball and receives Franz when Albert is missing during the Carnival. He worries that Albert may be in danger in the streets.

Duchess of Bracciano

Also known as the duchess

The Duchess of Bracciano, one of the last heiresses of the Colonnas, known for graciously presiding over the household’s celebrated fêtes.

Signor Torlonia

Also known as Torlonia

A Roman banker from whom Franz considers obtaining the money demanded for Albert’s ransom.

Unnamed messenger to Franz d’Épinay

Also known as the messenger · the man in the large cloak

A cloaked man who delivers Albert’s ransom letter to Franz at the Hôtel de Londres. He is Peppino, acting for Luigi Vampa.

Unnamed servant of the Duke of Bracciano

Also known as the duke’s servant

A servant who brings Franz word that a messenger with a letter from Albert is waiting at the Hôtel de Londres.

Unnamed porter at the gate of St. Sebastian

Also known as the porter

The gatekeeper who questions the party’s late-night passage and admits them after the Count of Monte Cristo shows a permit.

Unnamed sentinel at the catacombs

Also known as the bandit on the lookout · the sentry

A bandit guarding the approach to the catacombs who lets the Count of Monte Cristo and Franz pass after Peppino announces them.

Unnamed bandits in the catacombs

Also known as the brigands · the band

The armed members of Luigi Vampa’s band resting in the catacombs. They raise their carbines at the Count but obey Vampa when he recognizes and welcomes him.

Unnamed sentinel guarding Albert

Also known as the sentinel · the bandit on guard

A bandit posted outside the chamber where Albert is held. He reports that Albert has been quiet and sleeping.

M. Humann

Also known as Humann

An official in the indirect contributions department whom Debray suggests Albert contact about government tobacco.

Unnamed six Arab attackers

Also known as the six Arabs

Six Arab horsemen who attack Château-Renaud during his retreat from Constantine. Maximilian Morrel kills the last two and saves Château-Renaud.

Unnamed groom John

Also known as John

A young groom in Albert de Morcerf’s household who speaks only English.

Rosa

A woman who invites Albert to supper after the Opera; Albert sends her wine and oysters.

Unnamed young queen of Spain

Also known as the little queen

The young queen of Spain, whom Debray says the government may eventually marry to Don Carlos’s son.

Metternich

Also known as M. Metternich

A diplomat invoked by Beauchamp as a comparison for the awaited guest.

Unnamed Montmorency

Also known as a Montmorency

A person of the Montmorency family invoked by Beauchamp as a comparison for the awaited gentleman.

Prince of Wales

A royal figure whom Albert says Debray resembles when wearing his new order.

Duke of Reichstadt

Also known as the Duke of Reichstadt

Napoleon’s son, invoked by Albert as another comparison for Debray’s appearance in his new order.

M. de Guise

Also known as the Duke of Guise

A historical nobleman whom Debray cites in a quip about heraldic martlets and the French crown.

Renaud de Montauban

Also known as Renaud

A legendary ancestor of Château-Renaud, whose sword he jokes about using against Debray.

Charles III of Spain

Also known as Charles III

The Spanish monarch whose order Debray has received.

M. de Maintenon

Also known as Madame de Maintenon

A historical woman invoked by Debray in a joke about substituting a story for a delayed meal.

M. de Klagmann

Also known as Klagmann

A sculptor whom Château-Renaud says he might commission to make a statue of Chance.

M. Marochetti

Also known as Marochetti

A sculptor whom Château-Renaud says he might commission to make a statue of Chance.

Henry IV

Also known as Henry the Fourth

A historical French king who may have sat in one of Albert’s old armchairs, according to the narrator.

Sully

Also known as Duke of Sully

A historical French statesman whom the narrator mentions in connection with Albert’s old armchairs.

Louis XIII

Also known as Louis the Thirteenth

A historical French king who may have sat in one of Albert’s old armchairs, according to the narrator.

Cardinal Richelieu

Also known as Richelieu

A historical French statesman mentioned as a possible former occupant of Albert’s old armchairs.

Charles VII of France

Also known as Charles VII

A French king associated with Bourges, which Debray calls the capital of Charles VII.

The Count of Monte Cristo’s coachman

Also known as the coachman

The Count of Monte Cristo’s carriage driver, whom the Count says need not be awakened because Ali can drive.

Unnamed servants of Albert de Morcerf

Also known as the servants

Albert’s household staff. They include Germain and the young groom John.