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Drawing of Mercédès de Morcerf as depicted in Gankutsuou for an Anime Moms Zine
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you know how it is when it takes a gallon of booze for you to make a move on your two best friends? Fernand knows.
#Gankutsuou#the Count of Monte Cristo#Edmond Dantès#Mercédès de Morcerf#Fernand de Morcerf#Gankutsuou art#krokoart#fanart
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love how for so many hugely important moments - all the times the danglers villeforts are brought up in front of monte cristo, his and mercédès reunion, etc etc - albert de morcerf is Just Kinda There
#yeah yeah hes albert hes like The guy but mainly he is SUCH A LOST PUPPY#he does nothing in these scenes but BE THERE and THINK ABOUNT FRANZ D'EPINAY#alastop#the count of monte cristo#alexandre dumas#alexandre dumas père#classic lit#classic literature#french literature
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The Calendar of Monte Cristo: Chapter 27
1815: Danglars leaves Marseille and becomes an accounts clerk in Spain.
1815: Marriage of Gaspard Caderousse and Madeleine Radelle.
1815: Fernand and Caderousse called up for military service.
16 June 1815: Battle of Ligny. Fernand goes over to the English. [H]
1815: Following the Second Restoration, Fernand returns to France as a sub-lieutenant.
c.February 1816: Fernand, now a lieutenant, begins courting Mercédès. [R]
c.August 1816: Marriage of Fernand and Mercédès. [R]
18??: Birth of Albert.
1821: Caderousse visits Danglars and Fernand to ask for help after his business fails.
1823: l’Expédition d’Espagne. Danglars makes the beginning of his fortune supplying the French army. Fernand ends the war as Comte de Morcerf, a colonel and an officer of the Legion of Honour. [H]
1821–1829: Greek War of Independence. Fernand enters the service of Ali Pasha. [H]
182?: Danglars marries his first wife.
182?: Danglars’s first wife dies.
182?: Danglars marries his second wife, the widow Madame de Nargonne.
182?: Danglars becomes a baron.
June 1829: Caderousse tells Abbé Busoni what became of Edmond’s friends. Abbé Busoni gives Caderousse a diamond. [R]
Caderousse's narrative doesn’t contain any explicit dates, which serves to obscure a chronologically interesting aspect of Fernand’s career. Caderousse states definitely that Fernand served in l’Expédition d’Espagne, including the capture of the Trocadero, and then went on to serve under Ali Pasha until his death – but Ali Pasha died in January 1822, before l’Expédition d’Espagne and the capture of the Trocadero in 1823.
There’s also something up with the fair that Caderousse mentions at the end of the chapter, that he’s planning to find a jeweller at. He’s presumably referring to the annual trade fair at Beaucaire, which was a big deal: reputedly, more trade was done at Beaucaire during the week of the fair than in Marseille in an entire year. The thing is, by my count (which will be substantiated in later chapters) this scene is taking place in early June, and the fair was held in the last week of July.
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for the ask game...count of monte cristo..
hiiii
Favourite character: villefort.. i hate him but i don't..
Second favourite character: agh i have SO many.. maybe héloïse she's also terrible. or eugénie one of the few normal people in that book.. or albert....
Least favourite character: probably fernand mondego/count de morcerf he bothers me.
The character I’m most like: eugénie i would say..!!!!
Favourite pairing: eugénie and louise probably i don't know..
Least favourite pairing: MONTE CRISTO AND HAYDÉE FOR EVER.. haydée GET behind me
Favourite moment: either the monte cristo + mercédès reunion or the. i don't know dinner party where he is just tormenting everyone.. genuinely any time that guy is tormenting people.
i'm not doing the rating because i don't know how to rate things but . it's good
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Без возврата [FANVID]
Fandoms: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo | Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas, Dum - Fandom, DUMAS Alexandre - Works, Dumas - Fandom
Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Edmond Dantès/Mercédès Mondego
Edmond Dantès
Mercedes Hererra | Countess de Morcerf
Angst
Drama
Fanvids
Эдмон Дантес вернулся, Мерседес его узнала, но возврата к прежней жизни уже никогда не случится
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source https://archiveofourown.org/works/42484926
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I would pay gold to read what exactly was book!Fernand and Mercédès’ reaction after knowing their “precious-totally-worth-to-die-for” son Albèrt was kidnapped and nearly killed by italian bandits during his journey to Rome.
#*fear and worrying in spanish*#they're too sensitive and emotional for these traumas#and shouldn't be exposed to such heart-attacks#the count of monte cristo#book!verse#albèrt de morcerf#fernand de morcerf#mercédès de morcerf
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Favorite Shows :1/ ∞
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
#gankutsuou#the count of monte cristo#fav shows#edmund dantes#albert de morcerf#franz d'epinany#anime: gankutsuou#gonzo#i love this show so much its so beautiful#if you haven't seen it go watch#Fernand de Morcerf#ferdinand mondego#Mercédès de Morcerf
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Fourteen years, day for day
#illustration#digital art#The Count of Monte Cristo#tCoMC#Le Comte de Monte Cristo#Edmond Dantes#Procreate app#Fernand Mondego#Mercédès Mondego#Edmond Dantés#Count de Morcerf#interiors#gold#Chateau D'If#opera house#prison#storyboard#Alexander Dumas#sketch#poses#storytelling#blue and green#orange and blue#orange and green#click for better quality
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+Then & Now+
#Gankutsuou#count of monte cristo#albert de morcerf#edmond dantes#mercédès morcerf#mercédès herrera#franz d'epinay#Eugénie Danglars#Fernand Mondego#fernand morcerf
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Mercédès de Morcerf as depicted in Gankutsuou for Mother Dearest - an anime moms Zine
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Mercédès Herrera: You lied?!
Fernand de Morcerf: I may have.
Mercédès Herrera: You may have or you did?
Fernand de Morcerf: I may have did.
#the count of monte-cristo#incorrect quotes#source: the-mad-prince-of-denmark#Fernand de Morcerf#mercedes herrera
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There's an interesting thing about how The Count of Monte Cristo was constructed, connected to the time skip between chapters 30 and 31 and the way that after that our protagonist is reintroduced through the eyes of an outsider.
I'm going to put it under a cut for the people doing The Cristo Account -- I'm not going to talk about anything that hasn't already come up in the first 43 chapters, but it's likely to affect how you think about the novel, so if you're aiming for a first-time reading uninfluenced by preconceptions, maybe give it a miss.
The thing is, Chapter 31, with Franz's visit to Monte Cristo, was written as the beginning of the novel. The original plan was that this would be our introduction to the Count, and that he would initially be as much of an enigma to the audience as to Franz and Albert, with his past gradually being revealed along with the revelations about what he's up to.
Somewhere in the writing process, Dumas decided it would be better to give the audience his story up front, and he added what are now the first 30 chapters. I think history shows that this was absolutely the right call; the early chapters contain some of the novel's most enduringly memorable scenes -- imagine The Count of Monte Cristo without Abbe Faria! -- and it's easier to have patience with the Count when he's being a drama llama when we remember who he was and know what happened to him and have grounds to expect that he's behaving like this for a purpose.
But I'm finding it interesting, as we read through what were originally the opening chapters of the novel, to think about what the experience would be like if Dumas hadn't made that choice. If Franz's gradual discovery of the complicated Count were also the first we were learning of him.
What it would be like, as we're reintroduced to the families of Fernand and Danglars and de Villefort and Morrel, if we were meeting them for the first time, unaware as yet of the history that bound them together.
We wouldn't know why the Count gets weird around members of the Morcerf family (though we might guess at least part of the truth about Mercédès).
We wouldn't know that everything that's been said about the Count of Morcerf's long noble ancestry is bullshit, or that Monte Cristo's compliments to him are carefully calculated sarcasm.
We wouldn't know who the Abbe Busoni is, and when the Count remarks that it's strange how Bertuccio has found himself without any preparation in a place he's always tried to avoid, we wouldn't have any reason to doubt that it's coincidence or fate, wouldn't have already noticed all the signs that this is a situation engineered by the Count himself.
#the cristo account#the count of monte cristo#not a reblog#i may have more to say about this later#when it won't be spoilers
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THE MUSE’S MOTHER
general information:
FULL NAME: Mercédès Herrera
MAIDEN MARRIED NAME: Mercédès de Morcerf
NICKNAME(S): None
DATE OF BIRTH: February 10th, 5009
NATIONALITY: Catalan/French
OCCUPATION: None
RELIGION: Mercédès isn’t heavy in religion, though she does believe in a higher power.
SEXUALITY: Heterosexual
appearance:
FACE CLAIM: Mercédès de Morcerf (Gankutsuou)
HEIGHT: 5′7″
WEIGHT: 135 lbs
HAIR COLOR: Dark Brown
EYE COLOR: Green
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: Small mole under her lips on the left
background:
HOMETOWN: Marseilles, France
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Marseilles, France
FINANCIAL STATUS: Formerly high class, now mid-class
EDUCATION LEVEL: General education, but well read and greatly enjoys art.
FATHER: Unknown
MOTHER: Unknown
SIBLINGS: None
SPOUSE: None, formerly Fernand Mondego
CHILDREN: Albert Herrera
TAGGED BY @costumesandphoenixes technically but was tagged by @neverparted there ;D
Tagging- @warringpeace (Erik of course xD), @nctycurprcxy and anyone else who’s interested
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Back from the mountains
If you were wondering why I went silent for a week, it’s because I was in the mountains, and we only got intermittent, barely functional Internet. It was lovely, and a much-needed break.
While I was there, I reread one of my favorite books of all time, The Count of Monte-Cristo. I think my last reread was at least four years ago, though I’ve kind of lost count of how many times I’ve read it now.
Anyway, I am now filled with burning questions that need to be answered by fic. Some of this fic may already exist--I’ve requested and received Count of Monte-Cristo fic for Yuletide, and there is a lovely little corner of AO3 devoted to the adorable fugitive lesbians Eugénie Danglars and Louise d’Armilly.
Here are some of the gems I’ve found, some of which I already knew about (and one of which was written for me), in no particular order.
Only the Good Which We Do by El Staplador - Battered by a merciless avenger and her own past, Mercédès Mondego, née Herrera, Comtesse de Morcerf, retires to self-imposed confinement in a religious house; but there is one person that she cannot escape: herself.
I had read this fic when it was first posted, but it was a delight to reread. It’s a gorgeous meditation on Mercédès after the novel leaves her. El Staplador has written a whole bunch of Monte-Cristo fics and all of them are wonderful. A+++ recommend.
Constant by Minutia_R - A number of occasions on which Fernand Mondego (later known as the Count of Morcerf) refused to die.
One thing that has happened over the course of multiple rereads of the book is that I’ve thought more about the bad guys and spent more time pondering how Dumas wrote them. They’re all remarkably well-drawn despite the fact that two out of four are pretty much irredeemably awful human beings. Danglars goes from Iago to Mr Burns, while Caderousse is one of those trash fires that you keep hoping will stop burning but never quite manages to. (Also a trash fire: Benedetto.)
Fernand is also an amazing fuckup, and I find him particularly repellent because of the way he treats Mercédès (my girl, my poor, doomed girl). This fic goes a long way to making Fernand comprehensible, if not quite sympathetic. The fact that he also sells Haydée and her mother into slavery after betraying their father is yet another in a giant pile of terrible things he’s done, partly out of cowardice and partly out of greed.
Villefort I find interesting because he’s incredibly clever and hard-working, but he lets his ambition get the better of him. And then of course there’s his thoroughly Gothic affair with Hermine de Nargonne, who eventually marries Danglars, which I paid more attention to this time round and was truly struck by. Which brings me to...
Consequences by Carmilla - As Villefort slowly recovers from his wounding by Bertuccio, he remembers the affair that brought him to where he is.
This is one of those fics that I had no idea I wanted until this most recent reread, because oh, my god, there is so much unsaid about these two, who clearly should have run off together and been brilliant misanthropes side by side, but instead continued down the failtastic path of fail. A wonderful, creepy, evocative story.
Most Excellent Cigars by Maculategiraffe - Two years after the end of the novel, the Count and Albert Morcerf meet once more.
I confess, when I first saw the pairing, I side-eyed it, inveterate Edmond/Mercédès shipper that I am. But then I read it and it was amazingly written, subtle, and an absolute sucker-punch of sexy at the end.
And, last but not least, the fic written for me for Yuletide 2009.
Nature’s Debt and Mine by Flourish - The premiere of I due Foscari is the setting for a reunion, of sorts.
Now, I only recently discovered the brilliance that is @fansplaining, so imagine my glee when I discovered that this glorious fic was written by none other than @flourish, co-host of that podcast. I am not worthy.
But, other things I want fic about:
Mercédès during Edmond’s imprisonment and rise to fortune. She gives herself no credit whatsoever for the strength it must have taken to handle the series of misfortunes that hit her when Edmond disappeared.
Haydée figuring Edmond out; also Haydée and Valentine bonding.
Bertuccio, Baptistin, and Ali discuss their eccentric employer and his crazy plans. Bonus points for a cameo by Luigi Vampa and/or Peppino.
The Memoirs of Hermine de Nargonne, because we all know she survived by hook or by crook and probably reinvented herself as the mistress of some king or railroad baron or something like that.
Some later academic discovers Abbé Faria’s history of Italy and tries to piece together his life and works, with a digression on the lost treasure of Cardinal Spada and what may have become of it.
Valentine and Maximilian run into Eugénie and Louise sometime post-canon. Starts awkward but then they all get drunk and trade crazy stories about Edmond and dysfunctional parents. Someone mentions that Albert and Franz d’Épinay ran off together and zero people are surprised.
It is such a great book for fic--there are so many tiny subplots and minor characters that just beg for expansion. So many episodes glossed over or mentioned in passing that could become missing scenes. I love it so much.
#alexandre dumas#the count of monte-cristo#le comte de monte-cristo#dumas fangirl for life#Edmond Dantès
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Characters in Count of Monte Cristo so far from best to worst
Franz-the only sensible person here. needs to watch more carefully over his friend.
Louis Dantès-pure. makes me cry.
Nortier-killed someone but nobody cares. everybody loves him. loves his son.
Albert de Morcerf-a fop. can be annoying but also has hilarious moments.
Edmond Dantès-the main character. was once pure and innocent. now he takes drugs and is out for revenge.
Mercédès-waited for lots of months for edmond to come back. edmond is mad at her because she couldn’t wait any longer. edmond is mean about her. so is fernand. she needs a boyfriend who doesn’t think constantly of revenge.
Jacopo-sweet and good. a cinnamon roll. unrequited love for edmond.
The Countess G-overdramatic. dating lord byron and isn’t secretive about it. i want to be her friend.
the Abbé Faria-he wrote a whole history. and it died with him. edmond better salvage it. tried to teach edmond to rise up. failed but he doesn’t know. his life was sad.
M. Morrel-unseen character development. learns to care about people. does not want to lose his honor.
Julie Morrel-morrel’s daughter. gets into cars with strangers. generally bad, but it went well for her.
Luigi Vampa-a robber baron. a total ratbag. likes reading and his girlfriend.
Signor Pastrini-annoying. i personally imagine him talking with a nasally voice. always interrupting people and telling too long stories.
Peppino-probably would get killed if he tried to leave the gang. still don’t like him.
Teresa-mean. likes money and pretty dresses. don’t get into a car with her. in a different world she would be good at pranks.
Caderousse-selfish. doesn’t treat his wife right. feels bad for not speaking out, though.
Danglars-holds grudges. lied to caderousse when c. was drunk. probably has no friends because he’s so horrid.
Villefort-manipulated edmond. who was basically a child. would probably take candy from babies if it served his own purposes.
Fernand-manipulates everyone. but only because mercédès will kill herself if he kills people. is all around awful. but can be nice if it gets him what he wants.
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