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dumas

• The Count of Monte Cristo and NapoleonEdmond Dantès is jailed for carrying a letter from Elba, and meets the Abbé Faria in the Château d'If.
• Dumas's father, the general who defied NapoleonGeneral Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, born enslaved in Saint-Domingue, fell out with Napoleon and was imprisoned, the seed of Monte Cristo.
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeasProfessor Aronnax, Conseil and Ned Land aboard the Nautilus with Captain Nemo, "no one." The leagues are distance traveled, not depth.