The Count of Monte Cristo

On the morning of February 24, 1815 AD, the sun shone softly on the blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea around the island of Alba, where Napoleon Bonaparte — the absolute ruler of France before that — had become king of this small island only. After being the ruler over a population of 120 million people, he was now the ruler over the island's only six thousand inhabitants. In France, the ruling Bourbon family had returned to the throne in the person of Louis XVIII, who had been executed by the revolution. Napoleon's friends in France were planning to restore the former emperor to the throne of France, while he himself was busy planning his triumphant return.