<Tr> <Th> Significant other (s) </Th> <Td> Mercédès Mondego (ex-fiancée) Haydée Tebelin </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Nationality </Th> <Td> French </Td> </Tr> <P> Edmond Dantès (pronounced (ɛd. mɔ̃ dɑ̃. tɛs)) is a title character and the protagonist of Alexandre Dumas, père's 1844 adventure novel The Count of Monte Cristo . Within the story's narrative, Dantès is an intelligent, honest, and loving man who turns bitter and vengeful after he is framed for a crime he did not commit . When Dantès finds himself free and enormously wealthy, he takes it upon himself to reward those who have helped him in his plight and punish those responsible for his years of suffering . He is known by the aliases The Count of Monte Cristo (French: le Comte de Monte - Cristo), Sinbad the Sailor (Sinbad le Marin), Abbé Busoni, and Lord Wilmore . </P> <P> When the reader is first introduced to Edmond Dantès, he arrives in Marseille as first mate aboard the merchant ship Le Pharaon (The Pharaoh). At only 19 years old, the young Dantès seems destined for success . Although the trip was successful, the former Captain, Leclère, has fallen ill and died . Dantès relays these events to his patron, M. Morrel, who tells Dantès that he will try to have him named captain . Dantès rushes off to see his father and then his beloved, the young Catalan woman Mercédès, and the two agree to be married immediately . </P>

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