The Count of Monte Cristo Characters

Son of M. de Villefort and Heloise, Edouard is an insouciant young boy. He is eventually killed by his mother, who believes she is poisoning him to “protect him” from further danger.

A young society man and friend of Albert’s, Baron Franz D’Epinay meets the Count on the island of Monte Cristo and is later pledged to marry Valentine, although Noirtier-Villefort ends this engagement by revealing that he, long ago, killed Franz’s father.

Another of the Count’s “slaves,” Ali is a silent and devoted follower of the Count’s, greatly skilled in all manner of deeds, including horsemanship and adventuring.

One of the Count’s servants, Bertuccio, a Corsican, discovers Villefort’s child, whom he has tried to bury. He later adopts the boy and raises him, naming him Benedetto.

The child born out of wedlock to Villefort and Hermine, Benedetto is raised by Bertuccio but turns ill, leading a life of crime until he passes in Parisian society as Andrea Cavalcanti—all this, before his real identity is revealed in court.

Wife to Caderousse, La Carconte plots with her husband to murder the jeweler who has appraised the diamond given to them by the Abbe Busoni.

Doctor to the Villefort household, D’Avrigny believes that there is a poisoner in the home, though initially he is unsure who it might be.

Villefort’s first wife, Renee Saint-Meran dies early in the novel, and M. de Villefort marries Heloise. Renee gives birth to Valentine, her only daughter.

The parents of Renee, they are ardent royalists, who support Louis XXVIII. They are beloved by Valentine. The Saint-Meran grandparents both die of strokes under suspicious circumstances, and Villefort later determines that Heloise has poisoned them.

Originally a shepherd boy, Luigi Vampa becomes one of the most violent bandits in all of Italy, and he befriends the Count of Monte Cristo.

Brought in to appraise the diamond the Abbe Busoni gives to Caderousse and La Carconte, the jeweler is later killed by the couple when he spends the night at their inn.

Host to Franz and Albert in the hotel in Rome, M. Pastrini later introduces the two men to the Count of Monte Cristo.

A society lady of Rome and Paris, the Countess G fears the Count of Monte Cristo, comparing him to ghoulish characters in the poems of Lord Byron.

A lookout for Luigi Vampa, Peppino is saved from execution by the Count of Monte Cristo.

A society nobleman of Paris, Chateau-Renaud is a friend of Albert de Morcerf’s.

A friend of Albert de Morcerf’s, Beauchamp is a journalist, whose paper publishes a story decrying Fernand de Morcerf as a fraud and a cheat.

A friend of Albert de Morcerf’s and a government employee, Lucien Debray is having a romantic affair with Hermine Danglars.

The former Emperor of France, who is in exile on the island of Elba when the novel begins, then returns to power for a “Hundred Days” of rule, and then is finally defeated at the Battle of Waterloo (while Dantes is imprisoned).

A sailor on the Jeune-Amelie, the boat that rescues Dantes after he has escaped from the Chateau D’If. Jacopo befriends Dantes because, although he does not know Dantes’ true identity, he senses from the beginning that the young man has a “noble” air about him.

The captain of the Jeune-Amelie. Like Jacopo, Baldi also reveres Dantes, in part because Dantes is an extremely accomplished sailor. Baldi wonders if, in fact, Dantes has recently escaped from the Chateau D’If, but he says nothing to authorities, because Dantes is so valuable a worker on his vessel.

A loyal employee of Old Morrel’s. Cocles remains with the firm even after it suffers serious financial setbacks.

A guide and smuggler who works with the Count of Monte Cristo. Gaetano gives Franz a tour of the island of Monte Cristo, and arranges for Franz and the Count (who goes by the name of Sinbad the Sailor in this scene) to meet and dine together.

The wife of Luigi Vampa, famed brigand of Rome. Teresa pretends to have fallen in love with Albert during Roman Carnival, thus luring Albert into Vampa’s lair, where he is held for ransom (until being bailed out by the Count).

A famed criminal in the Roman countryside when Luigi Vampa was a young man. Cucumetto kills his fellow criminal Carlini in a dispute over Carlini’s mistress.

A deputy in Cucumetto’s band of criminals. Carlini kills his mistress after she is assaulted by Cucumetto, to “protect her honor.” Carlini, in turn, is killed by Cucumetto for this deed.

Carlini’s mistress. Cucumetto assaults Rita, and Carlini, despondent, kills Rita in what he considers an act of benevolence, since otherwise Rita would have been ostracized by her community.

Wife to Bertuccio’s deceased brother Benedetto. Assunta and Bertuccio later adopt the child Bertuccio finds buried in the garden at Auteuil, and they named this child Benedetto after Bertuccio’s brother.

The wife of Major Cavalcanti. Andrea pretends to believe that Olivia is in fact his biological mother in the scheme arranged by the Count, making the Major and Andrea legally father and son.

A loyal servant to the Count. Although the Count at one point tells Baptistin he knows that he steals from him on occasion, the Count considers this theft no more than the average amount for a Parisian servant. Baptistin, chastened, only increases his dutiful service to the Count.

A Parisian official. Noirtier brings in the notary to amend his will, making it so that, if Valentine marries Franz, he will officially disinherit her. Valentine arranges this as the first step toward marrying Maximilien.

A dutiful servant of the Villefort home. Barrois accidentally drinks from a pitcher that Mme de Villefort has poisoned, and dies, thus casting further suspicion on Mme de Villefort in the home.

The female companion to Eugenie Danglars. By the end of the novel, it is revealed that Eugenie and Louise are having a romantic relationship, and they wish to run off together to live outside France as a couple.

A loyal sailor of Morrel's.