THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (CHAP 44- PT 1) THE VENDETTA

1001 Adventure and Mystery Stories For The Road

Jon Hagadorn

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🗓️ 17 July 2025

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The Vendetta pT 1
Bertuccio explains that years ago, his brother, who had been a soldier in Napoleon's army, was murdered by royalist assassins in the city of Nîmes. Seeking justice, Bertuccio visited the public prosecutor of Nîmes, who at the time was Gérard de Villefort. Villefort, a royalist, was unsympathetic to Bertuccio's story and coolly turned him away. Bertuccio swore revenge on the public prosecutor.

Terrified for his life, Villefort transferred to Versailles, but Bertuccio followed him there. Bertuccio soon discovered that Villefort often came to visit the summerhouse in Auteuil, where he kept his mistress, a widowed baroness. One night, Bertuccio lay in wait for Villefort in the small garden behind the house and stabbed him, leaving him for dead. Villefort had just finished burying a box when Bertuccio pounced on him and grabbed the box, thinking that it contained a treasure. Instead, he found a baby, which had been smothered but started breathing after being given mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

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0:00.0	Welcome back everyone to 1001 Stories for the Road.
0:27.7	This is your host and storyteller, John Haggardorn.
0:30.9	Today, chapter 44, from the Count of Monte Cristo, the Vandetta.
0:37.9	At what point shall I begin my story, Your Excellency?' asked Bertuccio.
0:44.0	"'Where you please,' returned Monte Cristo,
0:47.0	"'since I know nothing at all of it.'
0:49.3	"'I thought the Abbey Boussoni had told your excellency.
0:54.3	"'Some particulars, doubtless, but that is seven or eight years ago, and I have forgotten them.
1:00.9	"'Then I can speak without fear of tiring your excellency?'
1:04.0	"'Go on, Monsieur Boutucho. You will supply the want of the evening papers.'
1:10.0	"'The story begins in 1815.' you will supply the want of the evening papers.
1:13.7	The story begins in 1815.
1:16.6	Ah, said Monte Cristo.
1:19.4	1815 is not yesterday.
1:26.9	No, majeure, and yet I recollect all things as clearly as if they had happened but then.
1:31.9	I had a brother, an elder brother, who was in the service of the emperor.
1:36.1	He had become a lieutenant in a regiment composed entirely of Corsicans.
1:38.6	This brother was my only friend.
1:40.6	We became orphans.
1:41.9	I at five.
1:43.1	He had eighteen.
1:47.1	He brought me up as if I had been his son, and then 1814 he married. When the emperor returned from the island of Elba, my brother instantly
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