The Count of Monte-Cristo (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)

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*Marseilles (mar-SAY). Southeastern French city in a bay on the Mediterranean coast, popularizer of the French revolutionary anthem, “La Marseillaise,” and the home of Alexandre Dumas’s hero, Edmond Dantès. Dumas depicts Marseilles as a romantic gateway to such exotic Mediterranean ports as Smyrna and Algiers, as host to a Catalan (Spanish) community—where the heroine lives—and as a loyal supporter of Napoleon Bonaparte during his hundred-day return from exile in 1815. Like Gascony in Dumas’s The Three Musketeers (1844), this Marseilles...

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