Count of Monte Cristo Chap. 54 thru 62

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This thread WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS. Please limit the discussion to content from chapters 54 thru 62. No need to mark spoilers, but please don't discuss events beyond chapter 62.

Chapter 62 ends with the count escorting the de Villeforts into dinner.

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Oh, my, the story of Cavalcanti and son was so funny!

And, in chapter 54, Franz is named as the son of General d'Epinay, the man who was so disgracefully assassinated in 1815, by the Bonapartists. His name in chapter 12 was General Quisnel, but I suppose he was using an alias to infiltrate the Bonapartists? Or were there two assassinations?

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Quisnel is the family name and D'Epinay is the name of the title.

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Thanks, you are so informed! :)

I am looking forward to see how the Count's little charade works on Danglars.

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Starting this section now. Thanks for clearing that question up, Kim.

ETA: nice bit of comic relief the Vaudeville act between the "Major Cavalcanti" and the Count.

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Chapter 60, the Telegraph




A Chappe semaphore tower near Saverne, France
(picture and caption from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphor...

[Kim]

Thanks for that Hayes. I was trying to picture what the tower would look like when I was listening to that section. I should have consulted Professor Wiki!

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When it was in use there would have been fewer trees, I imagine.

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I especially enjoyed the part with the telegraph, because the use of these manned towers figures prominently in one of my favorite books by Terry Pratchett, Going Postal. The protagonist in the story sets up a "dummy" tower in order to send out a false, and damning, message on the line, similar to what the Count did.