The Count of Monte Cristo

Monte Cristo Reveals His Identity as Edmond Dantès

When Morrel demands to know who has the right to stop him, Monte Cristo reveals he is Edmond Dantès: the man who saved Morrel’s father from suicide years prior, sent a purse to Morrel’s sister Julie, and captained the Pharaon to save the elder Morrel’s failing business. Overwhelmed, Morrel falls at his feet before rushing to summon Julie and Emmanuel, revealing the count as their long-unknown benefactor. The Morrel family embraces the count with gratitude, and he admits he concealed his identity for 11 years, only revealing it now due to Morrel’s desperate situation. He asks Emmanuel to watch over Morrel, and Julie presents the silken purse he had anonymously given the family years earlier, which he asks to keep as a token of their affection rather than a reminder of his past anonymous charity.

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Monte Cristo, preparing to leave France within a week, asks to be left alone with the grief-stricken Maximilian Morrel, who remains immobile and despairing over the loss of Valentine. Pressing him with the authority of a father, the count urges Morrel to hope, recounts his own past despair, and finally proposes a solemn pact: Morrel must live for one month under Monte Cristo’s care, and if, by the 5th of September—the tenth anniversary of the day the count saved Morrel’s father from suicide—he is not cured, he will be given pistols and poison to end his life. Morrel, shaken yet obedient, accepts these terms with a childlike reverence, while Monte Cristo informs him that Haydée has departed to await him and invites the young man to take her place in his household on the Champs-Élysées.