A character in The Count of Monte Cristo

Fernand Mondego

Name: The Count of Monte Cristo
Author: Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

A Catalan fisherman consumed by jealousy over Mercédès, who helps frame Dantès and later rises to a wealthy general and peer of France before his crimes are exposed.

Also known as: Count de Morcerf, Fernand

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Meet Fernand Mondego

Fernand Mondego is a young Catalan fisherman whose love for Mercédès has turned to jealousy, especially toward her fiancé, Edmond Dantès. Resentful and desperate to win Mercédès, Fernand joins a plot to frame Dantès, setting his own ambitions against the happiness of those around him.

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In youth a tall, dark, fierce-eyed Catalan fisherman with black hair and a Spanish complexion; in maturity a distinguished, martial-looking general with an upright soldierly bearing and greying hair.