What book was written by Alexandre Dumas about Edmond Dantes' imprisonment in the Chateau d'If?
Edmond Dantès government. Earlier in the movie, V and Evey watch the 1934 film adaptation of "The Count of Monte Cristo", which V states is his favorite movie. Writer/director John Hughes used Edmond Dantès as his pseudonym late in his career. The story of Dantès's imprisonment in the Château d'If was likely inspired by the imprisonment of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (Alexandre Dumas, "père"'s own father) in a dungeon fortress in Taranto, Italy, in 1799–1801. Edmond Dantès Edmond Dantès () is a title character and the protagonist of Alexandre Dumas, père's 1844 adventure novel "The Count of Monte Cristo". Within the story's narrative,
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas his use of the name "Alexandre Dumas" is his entry in the registry book of the Queen's Dragoons, which he joined on June 2, 1786. (It was known in his platoon that this was "not his real name.") He used the simple form "Alex Dumas" starting in 1794. General Dumas used the full name "Thomas-Alexandre Dumas-Davy de la Pailleterie" on his son's birth certificate. The enlistment roll-book for the 6th Regiment of the Queen's Dragoons, which Dumas joined in 1786, described him as "6 feet tall, with frizzy black hair and eyebrows... oval face, and brown skinned, small mouth, thick