Literary Timeline Count of Monte Cristo

  • The Pharaon arrives in Marseilles

  • Edmond Dantes is arrested

    Edmond Dantes is arrested at his wedding party. He talks to Villefort who tricks Dantes into arrest once he realizes that the letter from Napolean is addressed to Villefort's own father. This same day at 10 o'clock, Dantes is taken to Chateu d'If, a prison no longer used today
  • Napoleon takes back power

    While Dantes is in jail, Napoleon overtakes King Louis XVlll and is emperor again for 100 days
  • Napoleon loses power

  • Dantes father dies

  • Dantes meets Abbe Faria

  • Napoleon dies at Elba

  • Dantes arrives in Marsallies as the Count of Monte Cristo

  • The Count arrives in Paris

  • Fernand commits suicide

  • End of Story