Edmond Dantes Accomplishments

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Edmond Dantes was a handsome, promising young sailor, who managed the three-mastered French ship, the Pharaon, in Marseilles after its captain died in route home. Upon the eve of his wedding, Edmond is arrested and taken for questioning by the prosecutor Villefort about a simple dying wish his late captain asked of Dantes. The fading commander asked that Dantes deliver a letter for him to a specific man. Dantes did not know of anything else, but once Villefort came into contact with the letter, his father’s name was present, Monsieur Noirtier. Villefort’s father was a rebel under Napoleon’s lead. To cover the paper trail that might lead to arrest of Villefort himself he burned the document and imprisoned Dantes. For many years, Dantes hardly