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location
Marseilles
The bustling southern French port where Dantès lands, loves, and is undone.
Story so far
Marseilles is the great Mediterranean port of the modern Phocéens, its famous street La Canebière swarming with life from dawn to night. Here the Pharaon comes home, Dantès's proud old father lives in a small room off the Allées de Meilhan, and the Catalans village clings to a nearby promontory. The city's royalist courts and lingering Bonapartist suspicions, in the anxious days after the emperor's fall, form the backdrop of the story.
Appearance
A crowded, sun-struck port city of quays, ramparts, and narrow ways, dominated by Notre-Dame de la Garde and Fort Saint-Jean.
Role
The story's opening setting; Dantès's home.
Relationships
The Catalans — A small foreign fishing village on a promontory beside the city.
Sources — 1 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 1
- The bustling southern French port where Dantès lands, loves, and is undone.