The Count of Monte Cristo Political Prisoner Slogan

A large 2.25” pinback button with the slogan Free Edmond Dantès.

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas (père) completed in 1844. It is one of the author's more popular works, along with The Three Musketeers.

The story takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the historical events of 1815–1839. The historical setting is a fundamental element of the book, an adventure story centrally concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy, and forgiveness. It centers on a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from jail, acquires a fortune, and sets about exacting revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment.

Edmond Dantès, a nineteen-year-old Frenchman, is falsely accused of treason, arrested, and imprisoned without trial in the Château d'If, a grim island fortress off Marseille. A fellow prisoner, Abbé Faria, inspires his escape and guides him to a fortune in treasure. As the powerful and mysterious Count of Monte Cristo (Italy), he arrives from the Orient to enter the fashionable Parisian world of the 1830s and avenge himself on the men who conspired to destroy him.

‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ has been adapted as films, television series, novels (sequels, mashups, and the classic scifi novel ‘The Stars My Destination’), Japanese animation and manga, musicals, audio plays, and videogame characters. Edmond Dantes is mentioned in ‘V for Vendetta’ as one of V’s inspirations, and V watches the 1934 film adaptation of the novel.

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US penny for scale. Quarter and ruler NOT included. 2.25 inches equals 5.715 centimeters.