Story so far
Albert de Morcerf, true to his resolve, ships out from Marseilles for Algiers to serve in the Spahis and win an honest name under his mother's father's name, Herrera. The Count of Monte Cristo (Edmond Dantès) and Maximilian Morrel, arriving on the Canebière, glimpse him among the departing passengers—'that youth in the uniform of a lieutenant... is Albert de Morcerf'—waving his hat from the deck, while a veiled woman, his mother Mercédès, waves back with 'a groan expressive of bitter grief.' Having renounced his father's tainted fortune and left his mother provided for at Marseilles, Albert sails toward the danger and honor of Africa, embodying the noble regeneration the count set in motion when he spared his life—the son of the disgraced Morcerf remaking himself, by his own courage, into a man worthy of the name he has chosen.
Appearance
A young man of nearly twenty-two in the uniform of a lieutenant of Spahis, upright and grave on the ship's deck, waving his hat in farewell.
Role
The regenerated son sailing to Africa to earn an honorable name of his own.
Relationships
Mercédès — His mother, whom he leaves weeping on the quay as he sails for the Algerian war.
Edmond Dantès — The count who spared his life and set his regeneration in motion, watching him depart unseen.
Sources — 20 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 31
- The young viscount son of Fernand and Mercédès, bound for the Roman Carnival with his friend Franz.
Chapter 33
- The lighthearted, boastful young viscount son of Fernand and Mercédès, reunited with Franz for the Roman Carnival.
Chapter 37
- Lured by a bandit decoy during Carnival, Albert is kidnapped and ransomed by Vampa, then freed by the Count—whose composure he never suspects.
Chapter 38
- Grateful and unsuspecting, Albert invites the Count to Paris and pledges his family's influence, then heads home to a marriage treaty.
Chapter 40
- Back in Paris, Albert triumphantly presents the Count to his fashionable friends as the enchanter of his Roman adventure.
Chapter 41
- Albert plays cicerone through his home and presents the Count to his parents, then fields his mother's uneasy questions.
Chapter 54
- Albert plays cicerone through his home and presents the Count to his parents, then fields his mother's uneasy questions.
Chapter 68
- Back from Tréport, Albert visits the Count, jokes about escaping marriage to Eugénie, and invites him to his mother's summer ball at her urging.
Chapter 76
- Albert calls on the Danglars in high spirits and cool indifference, mocking the banker's fawning over 'Prince' Cavalcanti and caring nothing for Eugénie.
Chapter 77
- Charmed into meeting Haydée, Albert hears the terrible fall of Ali Pasha of Yanina—never guessing the unnamed French traitor was his own father.
Chapter 78
- Reading the Yanina article naming 'Fernand,' Albert storms to challenge Beauchamp to a duel; the editor demands three weeks to investigate before answering.
Chapter 84
- Albert learns from Beauchamp that the Yanina charge is true—his father a proven traitor—and, broken-hearted, burns the proofs, dreading what more may come.
Chapter 85
- Briefly soothed by a Normandy escape with the Count, Albert is shattered anew when a second paper names his father outright, and rides for Paris breathing vengeance.
Chapter 86
- From Beauchamp, Albert hears the whole trial—his father convicted of treason, undone by Haydée's testimony—and steels himself for vengeance on the hidden enemy.
Chapter 87
- Albert storms Danglars to challenge him—only to learn the banker acted on the Count of Monte Cristo's advice, and realizes his beloved friend is the true enemy.
Chapter 88
- Albert publicly insults the Count at the Opera and flings his glove, forcing a pistol duel at dawn—hoping, half in despair, to die in his father's stead.
Chapter 90
- On the duelling ground Albert stuns everyone by publicly apologizing to the Count—having learned the fisherman Fernand's betrayal of Edmond justified the vengeance.
Chapter 91
- Albert renounces his father's name and fortune, inventories and abandons everything, and leaves the dishonored house with his mother to begin life poor.
Chapter 106
- Penniless, Albert sells himself as an army substitute for 2,000 francs, sends his mother safely to Marseilles, and sets off to earn an honorable name in Africa.
Chapter 112
- Glimpsed at the Marseilles quay in a lieutenant's uniform, Albert sails for Algiers to earn an honorable name, waving farewell to his weeping mother.