Ch 21-The Count of Monte Cristo
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- What is the name of Dantés son?
- Albert
- How did Mercedes recognize Dantés toward the end?
- He played with his hair
- How does Dantés take revenge against Villaford?
- He finds him and makes him confess and police officials hear him
- Danglars
- 1st mate who conspired with Fernand Mondego against Dantés
- What was Dantés reaction to Mercédés? Why did he finally believe her?
- She still had his ring
- Divine rule of Kings
- God made them kings
- What was the beginning of the French Revolution?
- The Third Estate declared itself to be the National Assembly
- Third Estate
- bourgeoisie and peasants- 97% of population
- Luigi Vampa
- leader of a group of bandits- helped Dantés to get "revenge" on his enemies
- "God will give me justice"
- slogan on wall at Chateau D'If where Dantés was kept for about 15 years
- departments
- France was divided into 83 equal districts
- How did Dantés escape from the Chateau D'If?
- He took the place of the priest and with the body bag.
- Louis XIV
- ruled France for 72 years/ built the Versailles Palace/ "Sun King"/ absolute rule
- Second Estate
- nobles/king- less than 2% of population
- What did Dantés call himself with his new wealth?
- Count of Monte Cristo
- Directory
- ruled France for 4 years after Robespierre- unpopular with people- overthrown by Napoleon
- John Locke- "inalienble rights"
- he argued that men are "by nature, all free, equal, and independent."
- Mercédés
- engaged to Dantés/ thought Dantés was dead/ married Fernand Mondego
- moderates
- persons who don't hold extreme polical ways
- Louis XV
- king after Louis XIV- served 59 years- saw revolution coming
- "Bastille Day"
- celebrated every July 14th in France- similar to Independence Day in U.S.
- Who buys the house and land for Dantés from another French noble?
- Jacopo
- guillotine
- main method of execution in France, CHOP OFF THEIR HEADS!
- émigrés
- French for "emigrants"
- Danton/Robespierre
- two "radical" leaders- responsible for guillotining Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette
- "Bastille"
- a military prison where the French government kept "political prisoners"/ Radicals and people of Paris captured the Bastille
- "La Marseillaise"
- France national anthem
- Jacopo
- expert with knife- fought against Dantés in a "life or death" scenerio/ served under Dantés in getting "revenge"
- What happens in the end to Mercédés, Dantés, and Albert?
- They get back together and leave
- Why did Fernand Mondego (his friend supposely) turn against Dantés?
- He wanted to marry Mercédés
- radicals
- persons who want broad changes made in government.
- bourgeoisie
- urban middle class
- First Estate
- clergy of Catholic Church- less than 1% of population
- conservatives
- group that doesn't want to change existing conditions
- Where did Dantés find the treasure after he escaped?
- Island of Monte Cristo off the Italian coast
- Why did Dantés buy the Chateau D'If in the end?
- He was thinking of what the priest told him, memories that won't happen again.
- slogan of French Revolution
- "liberty, equality, fraternity"
- "Reign of Terror"
- rule of Roberspierre from 1793 to 1794- about 40,000 people guillotined
- Monsieur Morrel
- shipbuilder and owner/ promoted Dantés from 2nd mate to captain
- Abbé Faria
- priest in prison/ taught Dantés how to read and write/ also how to fight with a sword
- Marie-Antoinette
- Wife of Louis XVI, Austrian, most hated woman in France
- Why did Mercédés later marry Fernand Montego?
- thought Danté was dead, she was pregnant
- "enemies of the state"
- people who opposed Robespierre (had Danton guillotined when he felt that Robespierre was guillotining too many innocent people)
- Villafort
- chief magistrate who had Dantés falsely imprisoned/ also had Fernand kill his father, a supporter of Napoleon
- Edmont Dantés
- falsely accused/ locked up in Chateau D'If
- What happens to Villaford in the end?
- He goes to jail
- How does Dantés take revenge against Fernand Montego?
- With all the new wealth, took control of all the banks and casinos, Montego would lose all his money and go bankrupted