There is a chapter entitled " Pyramus and Thisbe " in Alexandre Dumas ' The Count of Monte Cristo, alluding to the secret romance between Maximillian Morrel and Valentine de Villefort.

Villefort, the deputy crown prosecutor in Marseille, while initially sympathetic to Dantès, destroys the letter from Elba when he discovers that it is addressed to his own father who is a Bonapartist.

After the two are freed by " Lord Wilmore ", Benedetto is sponsored by the Count to take the identity of " Viscount Andrea Cavalcanti " and is introduced by him into Parisian society at the same dinner party, with neither Villefort nor Madame Danglars suspecting that Andrea is their presumed dead son.

Villefort learns from Noirtier that Héloïse is the real murderer and confronts her, giving her the choice of a public execution or committing suicide by her own poison.

Fleeing after Caderousse's letter exposes him, Andrea gets as far as Compiègne before he is arrested and returned to Paris, where Villefort prosecutes him.

At his trial, Andrea reveals that he is Villefort's son and was rescued after Villefort buried him alive.

On the night of their nuptial feast, Dantès is arrested as a suspected Bonapartist, a helper to Napoléon, and taken to see the public prosecutor, Gérard de Villefort.

De Villefort concludes that Edmond is innocent, and assures him that he will be released.

De Villefort throws the letter on the fire for the letter is addressed to his father.

As such, he is introduced to several other powerful men, most notably Danglars, who is now a wealthy banker ; Mondego, who is now Count de Morcerf and a military hero ; and M. Villefort, who is now the Procureur du Roi, one of the most powerful advocates in the country.

He is possibly best known for his role in the Showtime series The Tudors in which he appeared as Thomas Cromwell from 2007 to 2009, and for his role as vampire Franklin Mott in season three of the HBO drama True Blood, as well as his role of Chief Magistrate Gérard de Villefort in The Count of Monte Cristo.

Dantes is unaware that Villefort is an agent of the exiled Emperor and that the letter Napoleon handed him contained instructions and plans about Napoleon's planned return to Paris: however Dante's rivals including Geared De Villefort, the opportunistic son of Nortier ( who is a royalist ) use the letter to frame Dantes and have him imprisoned in the Chateau d ' If until he escapes after 14 years and seeks vengeance upon those who wronged him.

The manga is also dramatically darker and more grotesque than the anime, suggesting a far different and much more depraved and violent ending for Villefort.

Believing the infant stillborn, Villefort had tried to secretly bury it in a box on the grounds of the house but while doing so, he was stabbed by Bertuccio, his sworn enemy, who rescued the infant and brought him back to life.

* Benedetto: The illegitimate son of de Villefort and Baroness Hermine Danglars ( Hermine de Nargonne ), raised by Bertuccio and his sister-in-law, Assunta, Rogliano.

He also explains to Dantès how Danglars, Fernand, and Villefort would each have had their own reasons for wanting Dantès in prison.

Disguised as the rich Count of Monte Cristo, Dantès takes revenge on the three men responsible for his unjust imprisonment: Fernand, now Count de Morcerf and Mercédès ' husband ; Danglars, now a baron and a wealthy banker ; and Villefort, now procureur du roi — all are now living in Paris.

Villefort had once conducted an affair with Madame Danglars.

He purchases the house and hosts a dinner party there, to which he invites, among others, Villefort and Madame Danglars.

This puzzles Villefort, who knew that the infant's box had been removed and so the Count's story could not be true, and also alarms him that perhaps he knows the secret of his past affair with Madame Danglars and may be taunting him.

* Madame Hermine Danglars ( formerly Baroness Hermine de Nargonne née de Servieux ): She had an affair with Gérard de Villefort.

* Gérard de Villefort: Royal prosecutor who imprisons Dantès, later becoming acquaintances as Dantès enacts his revenge.

De Villefort has renounced his father, a staunch Bonapartist, and destroyed the letter to protect himself, not Edmond ; to further protect his name, de Villefort sentences Edmond to imprisonment in the dreaded Chateau d ' If, an island fortress from which no prisoner had ever escaped, and to which the most dangerous political prisoners are sent.

* Napoleon plays an indirect yet important part in Alexandre Dumas's novel The Count of Monte Cristo the novel starts in 1815 with Napoleon exiled on the island of Elba, here we learn he hands a letter to the protagonist Edmond Dantes to give to one of his chief ( fictional ) supporters in Paris-Nortier De Villefort the president of a Bonapartist club.

Barrot was born at Villefort, Lozère.

In his work The Count of Monte Cristo, after Benedetto reveals in court that the crown prosecutor Monsieur de Villefort was his illegitimate father, he ( de Villefort ) forfeits his job and he removes his robes because it was a burden and torment to him, using the shirt of Nessus as a metaphor.

He exposes Villefort and Mondego for their part in the conspiracy, ruining their respective reputations and bringing the police down upon them ; Villefort goes insane, and Mondego commits suicide.

A stunned Villefort admits his guilt and flees the court.

Dantès confronts Villefort, revealing his true identity, but this, combined with the shock of the trial's revelations and the death of his wife and son, drives Villefort insane.

* Renée de Villefort, née de Saint-Méran: Gérard de Villefort's first wife, mother of Valentine.

* Valentine de Villefort: The daughter of Gérard de Villefort and his first wife, Renée.

* Héloïse de Villefort: The murderous second wife of Gérard de Villefort, mother of Edouard.

The only legitimate son of Villefort.

In love with Valentine de Villefort.

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