This story, also quoted in the Pleiade edition, has obviously served as model for the chapter of the murders inside the Villefort family. In another of the "True Stories" Peuchet describes a poisoning in a family. This third man, named Loupian, had married Picaud's fiancée while Picaud was under arrest. The third man's son he lured into crime and his daughter into prostitution, finally stabbing the man himself. He stabbed the first with a dagger on which were printed the words, "Number One", and then he poisoned the second. Picaud then spent years plotting his revenge on the three men who were responsible for his misfortune. When the man died, he left his fortune to Picaud whom he had begun to treat as a son. Picaud was placed under a form of house arrest, in the Fenestrelle Fort where he served as a servant to a rich Italian cleric. Peuchet told of a shoemaker, Pierre Picaud, living in Nîmes in 1807, who was engaged to marry a rich woman when three jealous friends falsely accused him of being a spy for England. Dumas included this essay in one of the editions from 1846. as well as several television series, and many movies worked the name 'Monte Cristo' into their titles." The title Monte Cristo lives on in a "famous gold mine, a line of luxury Cuban cigars, a sandwich, and any number of bars and casinos-it even lurks in the name of the street-corner hustle three-card monte."ĭumas wrote that the idea of revenge in The Count of Monte Cristo came from a story in a book compiled by Jacques Peuchet, a French police archivist, published in 1838 after the death of the author. There have been at least twenty-nine motion pictures based on it. The book was "translated into virtually all modern languages and has never been out of print in most of them. Perhaps no novel within a given number of years had so many readers and penetrated into so many different countries." This popularity has extended into modern times as well. George Saintsbury stated: "Monte Cristo is said to have been at its first appearance, and for some time subsequently, the most popular book in Europe. Day after day, at breakfast or at work or on the street, people talked of little else. is unlike any experience of reading we are likely to have known ourselves, maybe something like that of a particularly gripping television series. The effect of the serials, which held vast audiences enthralled. Carlos Javier Villafane Mercado described the effect in Europe: The original work was published in serial form in the Journal des Débats in 1844.
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