soon-to-be captain of the Pharaon‚ after Captain Leclere dies of brain fever off the Isle of I1 Giglio. Dantes is imprisoned when a suspicious letter is sent to Villefort‚ the state prosecutor‚ which claims Dantes is a Bonapartist. Dantes is sent to the Chateau d’If where he spends fourteen wretched years. Shortly after gaining his freedom‚ Dantes seeks vengeance on Danglar. Danglar is the ringleader in Dantes’s false imprisonment. Danglar is the purser for the Pharaon. At age twenty-five he was
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French ex-cavalry officer and the wealthy textile heir Étienne Balsan. At the age twenty-three‚ Chanel became Balsan’s mistress‚ supplanting the courtesan Émilienne d’Alençon as his new favorite.[15] For the next three years‚ she lived with him in his chateau Royallieu near Compiègne‚ an area known for its wooded equestrian paths and the hunting life.[16] It was a life style of self-indulgence‚ Balsan’s wealth and leisure allowing the cultivation of a social who reveled in partying and the gratification
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Did you know that spies actually exist? During WWII there were five main spy groups working for the allies. The jobs they had were dangerous but helped end the war faster. There were even some TV shows about it like Hogan’s Heroes. There were many groups of spies working with the resistance during WWII.The main ones were MI5‚ MI6‚ OSS‚ SOE‚ and the BSC. The MI5‚ MI6‚ BSC and SOE were all British spy groups. MI5 is Britain’s security service‚ while MI6 is Britain’s foreign intelligence service.BSC
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Chapter 15 Study Guide: The Age of Religious Wars and European Expansion 1. What caused the Revolt in The Netherlands? The Revolt of the Netherlands (1566-1587) By 1560s‚ Calvinism spread and appealed to the middle classes because of its intellectual seriousness‚ moral gravity‚ and emphasis on any form of labor well done Calvinism took deep root among the merchants and financiers in the northern provinces and working-class people also converted partly to please their employers In 1559‚ Philip
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avenger feel much better’‚ find examples in the novel that prove or disprove the statement. The novel proves that this statement is true because when Dantès found out the truth‚ he wanted nothing more than revenge; this is why he had escaped from the Chateau D’if and sought out the treasure on the isle of Monte Cristo. Using the treasure he quickly inflicted damage onto his enemies rather slowly. He tortured those driving Danglars to become bankrupted‚ Mondego to suicide and Villefort to go insane when
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Born on July 24‚ 1802 in Villers-Cotterets‚ Aisne‚ France‚ Alexandre Dumas grew to become one of France’s most notable authors. His father‚ born in the French colony of Saint Domingue‚ located in the Caribbean‚ was a Creole general for the French Revolutionary armies‚ and his mother was the daughter of an inn-keeper. Given Thomas-Alexandre Dumas’s lineage of a mother who was of Afro-Caribbean ancestry‚ Alexandra Dumas himself was also a man of Afro-Caribbean descent through blood. At the tender age
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THEMES The Limits of Human Justice- Edmond Dantès takes justice into his own hands because he is dismayed by the limitations of society’s criminal justice system. Societal justice has allowed his enemies to slip through the cracks‚ going unpunished for the heinous crimes they have committed against him. Moreover‚ even if his enemies’ crimes were uncovered‚ Dantès does not believe that their punishment would be true justice. Though his enemies have caused him years of emotional anguish‚ the most
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There are sites of nature that amaze‚ startle and leave you gasping for breath— and then there are awesome creations like Château de Chillon‚ that force you to glare at them without batting your eyelids while being transported into a new world. Standing imperiously on the banks of Lake Geneva in Switzerland‚ the castle of Chillon proves to be arguably the best preserved medieval fortification in all of Europe. One that will remain etched in your memory forever. Image by HYPERLINK "http://www
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