Le Secret de Monte-Cristo est un film français réalisé par Albert Valentin, sorti en 1948 et adapté du récit d'un fait divers, « Le Diamant et la Vengeance », publié en 1838 dans les Mémoires tirés des archives de la police (tome V, chapitre LXXIV), mémoires apocryphes rédigés en large partie par l'écrivain Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon à partir des notes de Jacques Peuchet, archiviste de la Préfecture de police. Alexandre Dumas emprunta pour bonne part la trame de ce récit pour son célèbre roman Le Comte de Monte-Cristo.
One of Alexandre Dumas's most popular adventure novels is "The Count of Monte-Cristo". What is little known is that the famous writer made up neither its plot nor its characters. Dumas actually heard the true story of a man named François Picault during a stay at a private mansion and only adapted it into the novel everybody knows . Picault (who in the book would become Edmond Dantès) was about to marry the beautiful Marguerite (Mercédès in the novel) when he was denounced by three jealous friends who falsely accused him of being a spy for England. Picault was placed under a form of house arrest. In his prison, he made friends with an Italian abbot. When the man died, he left his fortune to Picault whom he had begun to treat as a son. On his release, Picault, who had become wealthy, was able to pursue his ruthless revenge on the three men who were responsible for his misfortune.
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- Het geheim van Monte-Cristo
- The Secret of Monte-Cristo
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