#château d'if

[philoursmars]

Marseille en août. Les mosaïques des bancs de la Corniche Kennedy. En face, l'archipel du Frioul et le Château d'If.

[beardedmrbean]

Wouldn't it be funny if Griner was arrested at the Paris airport for drug possession ?

I hope she's smart enough to not do something like that, but I would absolutely laugh right before hitting my head against the wall.

Maybe instead of a gulag she could get sent to Château d'If.

I really don't think she's gong to be that foolish though

[postcard-from-the-past]

Château d'If in Marseille, Provence region of France

French vintage postcard

[pen-inks]

little french boy dont hit that man with a chair noooo

[lamuradex]

Okay. Here are the things about The Count of Monte Cristo I adore, but I am certain adaptations will get wrong without having watched any adaptations.

Edmond's father being a major motivator for his revenge. Films, for brevity, mainly seem to focus on Mercedes and his ruined marriage. Thanks Hollywood.

Villefort having no connection to the other people who betrayed Edmond. One of the most tragic elements is that Villefort is actually about to save Dantes, right before he sacrifices him to save himself. I'm aware of at least one musical that has Villefort conspire together with Danglars and Fernand. I love the songs but that bothers me.

Caderousse. I can imagine some versions cut him out as superfluous. The musical seems to replace him with Villefort. But he's the fourth conspirator! And the first to fall.

A whole bunch of the subplots. Do the films need all the stuff with Monsieur Noirtier? Maybe not. Is Monsieur Noirtier the best character in the book? I think so. He's the most magnificent bastard in the plot.

The Morrels. Again, is it strictly necessary? I don't know. But, again, is there the scene where they reveal Monsieur Morrel's last words were to remember Edmond Dantes, making it my favourite scene in the book? You bet your ass!

Seriously, so many subplots I can see them cutting, but each one pays off in some way. Vampa, Franz, Eugenie Danglars, the Abbey Fariah's book

That scene at the end where The Count goes back to the Château d'If is beautiful

Adaptations will try to give it a happy ending, getting him back with Mercedes or something. But that isn't the point of the book.

Only a handful of characters get out of the book happy. And most of them have gone through hell first.

Also, The Count never actually fights anyone with a sword. He could, he's apparently lethal, but he never does. He's about to once, but then Fernand fucking panics when The Count puts on a sailor suit.

He literally leaves the room, gets changed, and then comes back in a sailor's uniform. It's so extra and I love it. And Fernand loses his shit! Understandably.

The whole revenge plan is so extra, so complex, so convoluted, there is no way you could adapt it all into a film.

And all because Edmond knows the Abbey Fariah wouldn't want him just killing them. Because that would be against God.

So instead he unleashes hell on them!

It's classic "No, I didn't kill them. They're just trapped in never ending misery for the rest of their days. So it's fine."

Bleed them dry of money, out them as a criminal, introduce poisons to his wife and introduce his illegitimate bastard to society.

I can see why you could never truly adapt this book.

Doesn't mean I have to be happy about it.

[vickyvicarious]

'Yes,' said M. de Boville. 'I even had occasion to see the man in 1816 or 1817, and you could only enter his cell with a squad of soldiers. The man made a deep impression on me; I shall never forget his face.' The Englishman gave a hint of a smile.

This conversation is so fucking funny.

'I understand. That must have put an end to the plans for escape.' 'As far as the dead man was concerned, yes,' M. de Boville replied. 'But not for the one who was left alive. On the contrary, this Dantes saw the means to hasten his escape. No doubt he thought that prisoners who die in the Château d'If are buried in an ordinary cemetery. He moved the dead man into his own cell, took his place in the shroud into which he had been sewn and waited for the body to be buried.' 'That was a risky plan, arguing some courage,' the Englishman said.

Dantes: wow you know this Dantes guy actually sounds pretty impressive, pretty cool don't you think?

'Yes, Monsieur,' the inspector went on. 'You can just imagine the fugitive's amazement when he felt himself falling from the top of the cliff. I should like to have seen his face at that moment.' 'It would have been difficult.' 'No matter!' said M. de Boville, in much better humour, now that he was certain of recovering his two hundred thousand francs. 'No matter! I can still imagine it!' And he burst out laughing. 'So can I,' said the Englishman, starting to laugh in his turn, but in the way that the English laugh, through clenched teeth.

Dantes, gritting his teeth: fuckyoufuckyoufuckyoufuckyou

Narrator: he laughed along in typical English fashion

[hiddenvioletsgrow]

Meanwhile in the Château d'If…

Abbe Farier: Treat people the way you want to be treated

Edmond: Killed without hesitation

Abbe: No!

[dgrailwar]

Round 5, Day 3 - Team Avenger

"There's much to think about."

That was the first and only thing that the Avenger said when returning to the base. He paced in the prison cell, before sitting down on the metal bed, eyes focused elsewhere.

"..."

It seemed as if he was lost in thought.

Servant Skills:

Determination of Steel (EX Rank): If Avenger is about to take a fatal wound, if there's at least a 3% difference in their score and the victor above him, he may avoid damage. When facing a single-target (1-on-1), he will gain a +3% boost.

Monte Cristo Mythologie: The King of the Cavern (C Rank): When battling enemies, his flames are like a poison. He reduces demerits against him by 3%, and when he is victorious against another, he inflicts a -2% demerit for their next round. This demerit increases by 2% by every 10% difference in scores.

Wisdom of Predicament (A Rank): When engaged in a Free-for-All, gain a +3% boost. Additionally, if Avenger earns last place, both the victor and the 2nd place Servant gain a -2% demerit, rather than simply the 2nd place Servant.

NOBLE PHANTASM: Enfer Château d'If (A Rank)

A high-speed Noble Phantasm that inflicts 2 ‘wounds’ rather than 1. If this Noble Phantasm is triggered during a one-on-one battle, then he gains a +20% boost. If it is triggered in a Free-for-All, the boost increases to +30%. Demerits lose any and all effectiveness against him for the duration of the round.

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Class-Traits:

AVENGER-CLASS Servants are vengeful by nature. The first time they are defeated by a Servant, they gain an automatic +2% bonus against that specific Servant, without needing to study them (but can in order to increase the bonus). They gain a permanent +3% bonus per wound they attain that will remain if the wound remains, but will disappear if the wound is healed.

[acupofbritishearlgrey]

The Prisoner of Château d'If, episode 2 (1988), dir. Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich

[wolfsnape]

Comme vous savez, je suis en train de lire Monte Cristo et là, Edmond vient d'être enfermé au château d'If et le boug il a décidé d'entamer une grève de la faim parce que pourquoi pas et le geôlier il SOUFFLE en mode "hm you can't do that" il a la vibe fonctionnaire de l'éducation nationale épuisé en fin de semaine, je l'adore

[leseigneurdufeu]

vampire comte de monte-cristo...

I like your mind.

Everything proceeds normally until le château d'if. There, Faria, realizing he will die, decides to give one last secret to Edmond: he is the last of the Spada vampire clan. He bites him and turns him into a vampire, then dies a few months later.

The newfound strength and stamina account for how he survives his escape. Known as Sinbad the Sailor on the Sea, he scours the mediterranean to get even richer. Meets Luigi Vampa, who is at the head of a small convent and a big troop of outlaws, most of which dont know about him being a vampire. Edmond overpowers him and makes him his drone/thrall.

Franz stumbles into monte cristo island. There, it's not the drugs but the hypnosis of Sinbad that makes him fall asleep/faint.

Later on, everyone finding Monte Cristo charismatic or not recognizing Dantes in him are just falling for his glamour again.

Except for Mercedes, because she truly loved him and true love, even unilateral at that point of the story, can break every magic. Or something like that.

Bertuccio is also a vampire, and Benedetto wasnt completely dead yet, but he bit him to save him. He now blames the part of darkness in every vampire (and so himself for springing it to a child with no prior moral education/experience) for his sister's death. Monte Cristo will later dispose of Benedetto/Andrea that liberally because he sees a rogue vampire as a threat to himself.

Despite her begging prayers, he always refused to turn Haydee. He goes into the duel with Albert knowing he cant die (but mercedes saves albert's life). When Valentine is poisoned, the scene goes exactly the same (you have to trust me, even if you were to wake up in a tomb) but he turns her instead of Juliet-ing her. However, since she was so sick, she doesnt turn, she simply survives the poison.

There are multiple people he couldnt save because they dere already dead (his father, Haydee's mother...) or outright refuses to save when able to (Caderousse) but the death of Edouard shakes him and he realizes he's been playing God but acting like a demon.

He finally turns Haydee and they sail into the sunset to travel forever on the sea.

[philoursmars]

Marseille. De beaux bateaux en bois, dans le Vieux-Port, face à l'Hôtel de Ville, sous Notre-Dame de la Garde, ou à l'entrée du port, devant le Château d'If.

[disaster-priestress-sumire]

The way Haydée and Mercédès are paralleled, and contrasted, in The Count of Monte-Cristo is so obvious.

Contrasts

Haydée represents light (it's in her very name), hope and faithfulness. Mercédès represents the past and betrayal.

At first, Mercédès refuses the vengeance and its motives. She asks the Count's forgiveness and, when it doesn't work, asks for her son to be spared because he's innocent. Haydée has her very own vengeance to fulfil.

Monte Cristo and the narrator both describe Haydée as young, while Mercédès keeps describing herself as old.

Facing hardships

Haydée bears the trials of life with dignity, even when she reports what she went through (she does express emotions, but she forces herself to explain how things happen), while Mercédès uses pathos and rarely acknowledge other people's trauma.

Past and future

For Haydée, no matters how many things hurt her, the past is something to review, to enjoy. It is also a bridge toward the future, a way to pass the time.

"I shall rejoice in the prospect of your coming, and in the evening dwell with delight on the happiness I have enjoyed in your presence; then too, when alone, I can call forth mighty pictures of the past, see vast horizons bounded only by the towering mountains of Pindus and Olympus. Oh, believe me, that when three great passions, such as sorrow, love, and gratitude fill the heart, ennui can find no place."

– Chapter 49: Haydée

For Mercédès, the past is a regret never leaving her. It's the ghost of the person she loved haunting her life, having all the reasons to hate her and her family. It's a trap in which she ultimately locks herself in, because it's the only happiness she thinks she can have.

"The bitter cup of adversity has been drained by me to the very dregs, and I feel that the grave is not far distant. You have acted kindly, count, in bringing me back to the place where I have enjoyed so much bliss. I ought to meet death on the same spot where happiness was once all my own."

– Chapter 112: The Departure

The end of the book pictures those two visions. Haydée sails with Monte Cristo toward their future (what can represent more possibilities than the open sea?) while Mercédès stays in the old house of the Dantès, surrounded by memories, waiting for her death.

Heaven, Earth and Hell

Several women are compared to angels in the book, but Haydée is the only one Monte Cristo calls that way. She's also described as a goddess. He describes himself as an angel of vengeance (so does the narrator) while the Morrels call him their guardian angel. Mercédès is on the opposite side of the spectrum. She's implied to be paralleled to the God of the Underworld, since she tries to feed Monte Cristo pomegranates (chapter 70). She doesn't belong in the heavenly sphere—she states so herself:

"I once possessed piety, innocence, and love, the three ingredients of the happiness of angels, and now what am I? (…) Like the gulf between me and the past, there is an abyss between you, Edmond, and the rest of mankind."

– Chapter 112: The Departure

(Edmond Dantès is also bound to Hell obviously... but only Edmond Dantès, who had to cross it, who died in it, to become the Count of Monte-Cristo. The narrator stops calling him Edmond Dantès after he escapes the Château d'If and sees his old home empty.)

Free will

Haydée takes up the reins of her life when she wants to, she holds herself accountable for her decisions and is ready to face the consequences.

"Although a Christian, may God forgive me, I have always sought to revenge my illustrious father. (…) [The count] is quite unaware of them, and I have but one fear, which is that he should disapprove of what I have done. But it is a glorious day for me."

– Chapter 86: The Trial

On the other hand, Mercédès does not want to. She pictures herself as a victim of the situation.

"Alas!" exclaimed Mercédès, "if it were so, if I possessed free will, but without the power to render that will efficacious, it would drive me to despair."

– Chapter 112: The Departure

Love and Death

Maybe the most important point of all (the one that matters the most to Monte Cristo).

Haydée states several times in the course of the book she'd die without Monte Cristo. Those aren't mere words: they are a fact. While the death vow token by Mercédès in Chapter 3 is empty ("If he is dead, I shall die too.") and she ends up regretting it ("I believed you dead; why did I survive you?" – Chapter 112).

[kaurwreck]

yes i did figure out the most likely irl airport templating the airport in the fifth season finale of bungou stray dogs based on its geographic relationship with yokohama and general layout, and then yes i did scope out the most practical potential fuck space, and yes i did decide it was the nursery and more specifically the lactation booths within the nursery, and yes i did write accurate directions to the nearest nursery from where kunikida and tanizaki were standing in the last minute of the last episode of the fifth season, and yes i did do this so that kunikida can have cathartic phone sex with his boyfriend and his boyfriend's boyfriend from where they're stranded on the roof of european guantanamo alcatraz bay/château d'If

[frenchlitclub]

Groupe 1: Notre lecture du mois de juin sera Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, d'Alexandre Dumas (tome 1 seulement)

Le roman raconte comment, au début du règne de Louis XVIII, le 24 février 1815, alors que Napoléon se prépare à quitter l'île d'Elbe pour les Cent Jours, Edmond Dantès, jeune marin de dix-neuf ans, débarque à Marseille pour s'y marier avec la belle Catalane Mercédès. Trahi par des « amis » jaloux, il est dénoncé comme conspirateur bonapartiste et enfermé dans une geôle du château d'If, au large de Marseille. Après quatorze années, d'abord réduit à la solitude et au désespoir puis régénéré et instruit en secret par un compagnon de captivité qui lui donne une carte avec l'emplacement d'un trésor, l'abbé Faria, il réussit à s'évader et prend possession du trésor caché dans l'île de Montecristo. Rendu riche et puissant, Dantès se fait passer pour divers personnages, dont le comte de Monte-Cristo. Il entreprend de garantir le bonheur et la liberté aux rares qui lui sont restés fidèles et de se venger méthodiquement de ceux qui l'ont accusé à tort et fait emprisonner.

Pour lire en ligne/télécharger: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/17989

Pour rejoindre le groupe sur discord

[ghostcheerio]

I drew pre-Château d'If Edmond Dantes back in 2020 but never got around to posting it for some reason