All 50 Uses of
chateau
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d'If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island.†
Chpt 1-2 *
- The Chateau D'If.†
Chpt 7-8
- Dantes rose and looked forward, when he saw rise within a hundred yards of him the black and frowning rock on which stands the Chateau d'If.†
Chpt 7-8
- "The Chateau d'If?" cried he, "what are we going there for?"†
Chpt 7-8
- Are there any magistrates or judges at the Chateau d'If?"†
Chpt 7-8
- "You think, then," said he, "that I am taken to the Chateau d'If to be imprisoned there?"†
Chpt 7-8
- "I do not know what M. de Villefort promised you," said the gendarme, "but I know we are taking you to the Chateau d'If.†
Chpt 7-8
- He spoke Italian like a Tuscan, and Spanish like a Castilian; he would have been free, and happy with Mercedes and his father, whereas he was now confined in the Chateau d'If, that impregnable fortress, ignorant of the future destiny of his father and Mercedes; and all this because he had trusted to Villefort's promise.†
Chpt 7-8
- "I am the Abbe Faria, and have been imprisoned as you know in this Chateau d'If since the year 1811; previously to which I had been confined for three years in the fortress of Fenestrelle.†
Chpt 15-16
- "Are you not," he asked, "the priest who here in the Chateau d'If is generally thought to be—ill?"†
Chpt 15-16
- "Well, then," resumed Faria with a bitter smile, "let me answer your question in full, by acknowledging that I am the poor mad prisoner of the Chateau d'If, for many years permitted to amuse the different visitors with what is said to be my insanity; and, in all probability, I should be promoted to the honor of making sport for the children, if such innocent beings could be found in an abode devoted like this to suffering and despair."†
Chpt 15-16
- Those that have been crowned with full success have been long meditated upon, and carefully arranged; such, for instance, as the escape of the Duc de Beaufort from the Chateau de Vincennes, that of the Abbe Dubuquoi from For l'Eveque; of Latude from the Bastille.†
Chpt 15-16
- "When you pay me a visit in my cell, my young friend," said he, "I will show you an entire work, the fruits of the thoughts and reflections of my whole life; many of them meditated over in the shades of the Colosseum at Rome, at the foot of St. Mark's column at Venice, and on the borders of the Arno at Florence, little imagining at the time that they would be arranged in order within the walls of the Chateau d'If.†
Chpt 15-16
- "I tore up several of my shirts, and ripped out the seams in the sheets of my bed, during my three years' imprisonment at Fenestrelle; and when I was removed to the Chateau d'If, I managed to bring the ravellings with me, so that I have been able to finish my work here."†
Chpt 17-18
- …with the death of Captain Leclere, and the receipt of a packet to be delivered by himself to the grand marshal; his interview with that personage, and his receiving, in place of the packet brought, a letter addressed to a Monsieur Noirtier—his arrival at Marseilles, and interview with his father—his affection for Mercedes, and their nuptual feast—his arrest and subsequent examination, his temporary detention at the Palais de Justice, and his final imprisonment in the Chateau d'If.†
Chpt 17-18
- "Oh," added a third voice, "the shrouds of the Chateau d'If are not dear!"†
Chpt 19-20
- The chaplain of the chateau came to me yesterday to beg for leave of absence, in order to take a trip to Hyeres for a week.†
Chpt 19-20
- The Cemetery of the Chateau D'If.†
Chpt 19-20
- The noise of the waves dashing against the rocks on which the chateau is built, reached Dantes' ear distinctly as they went forward.†
Chpt 19-20
- The sea is the cemetery of the Chateau d'If.†
Chpt 19-20
- Ratonneau and Pomegue are the nearest islands of all those that surround the Chateau d'If, but Ratonneau and Pomegue are inhabited, as is also the islet of Daume.†
Chpt 22-23
- The islands of Tiboulen and Lemaire are a league from the Chateau d'If; Dantes, nevertheless, determined to make for them.†
Chpt 22-23
- But, as we have said, it was at least a league from the Chateau d'If to this island.†
Chpt 22-23
- He fancied that every wave behind him was a pursuing boat, and he redoubled his exertions, increasing rapidly his distance from the chateau, but exhausting his strength.†
Chpt 22-23
- He swam on still, and already the terrible chateau had disappeared in the darkness.†
Chpt 22-23
- Dantes stood mute and motionless before this majestic spectacle, as if he now beheld it for the first time; and indeed since his captivity in the Chateau d'If he had forgotten that such scenes were ever to be witnessed.†
Chpt 22-23
- As Dantes (his eyes turned in the direction of the Chateau d'If) uttered this prayer, he saw off the farther point of the Island of Pomegue a small vessel with lateen sail skimming the sea like a gull in search of prey; and with his sailor's eye he knew it to be a Genoese tartan.†
Chpt 22-23
- He soon saw that the vessel, with the wind dead ahead, was tacking between the Chateau d'If and the tower of Planier.†
Chpt 22-23
- They were rapidly leaving the Chateau d'If behind.†
Chpt 22-23
- Dantes recollected that his hair and beard had not been cut all the time he was at the Chateau d'If.†
Chpt 22-23
- "Hollo! what's the matter at the Chateau d'If?" said the captain.†
Chpt 22-23
- A small white cloud, which had attracted Dantes' attention, crowned the summit of the bastion of the Chateau d'If.†
Chpt 22-23
- "A prisoner has escaped from the Chateau d'If, and they are firing the alarm gun," replied Dantes.†
Chpt 22-23
- He was nineteen when he entered the Chateau d'If; he was thirty-three when he escaped.†
Chpt 22-23
- But the skilful manner in which Dantes had handled the lugger had entirely reassured him; and then, when he saw the light plume of smoke floating above the bastion of the Chateau d'If, and heard the distant report, he was instantly struck with the idea that he had on board his vessel one whose coming and going, like that of kings, was accompanied with salutes of artillery.†
Chpt 22-23
- Dantes had entered the Chateau d'If with the round, open, smiling face of a young and happy man, with whom the early paths of life have been smooth, and who anticipates a future corresponding with his past.†
Chpt 22-23
- One fine morning, then, his yacht, followed by the little fishing-boat, boldly entered the port of Marseilles, and anchored exactly opposite the spot from whence, on the never-to-be-forgotten night of his departure for the Chateau d'If, he had been put on board the boat destined to convey him thither.†
Chpt 25-26
- I have since learned that he was confined in the Chateau d'If, and I should like to learn some particulars of his death."†
Chpt 27-28
- He, no doubt, thought that prisoners who died in the Chateau d'If were interred in an ordinary burial-ground, and he conveyed the dead man into his own cell, took his place in the sack in which they had sewed up the corpse, and awaited the moment of interment."†
Chpt 27-28
- "The Chateau d'If has no cemetery, and they simply throw the dead into the sea, after fastening a thirty-six pound cannon-ball to their feet."†
Chpt 27-28
- The inspector begged the Englishman to seat himself in an arm-chair, and placed before him the register and documents relative to the Chateau d'If, giving him all the time he desired for the examination, while De Boville seated himself in a corner, and began to read his newspaper.†
Chpt 27-28
- …queens, to protect, parties to unite, elections to direct; making more use of your cabinet with your pen and your telegraph than Napoleon did of his battle-fields with his sword and his victories; possessing five and twenty thousand francs a year, besides your place; a horse, for which Chateau-Renaud offered you four hundred louis, and which you would not part with; a tailor who never disappoints you; with the opera, the jockey-club, and other diversions, can you not amuse yourself?†
Chpt 39-40
- "Do not say that, Debray," returned Beauchamp, laughing, "for here is Chateau-Renaud, who, to cure you of your mania for paradoxes, will pass the sword of Renaud de Montauban, his ancestor, through your body."†
Chpt 39-40
- "M. de Chateau-Renaud—M. Maximilian Morrel," said the servant, announcing two fresh guests.†
Chpt 39-40
- But before he had finished, M. de Chateau-Renaud, a handsome young man of thirty, gentleman all over,—that is, with the figure of a Guiche and the wit of a Mortemart,—took Albert's hand.†
Chpt 39-40
- "Monsieur," said Albert with affectionate courtesy, "the count of Chateau-Renaud knew how much pleasure this introduction would give me; you are his friend, be ours also."†
Chpt 39-40
- "Well said," interrupted Chateau-Renaud; "and pray that, if you should ever be in a similar predicament, he may do as much for you as he did for me."†
Chpt 39-40
- "Oh, nothing worth speaking of," said Morrel; "M. de Chateau-Renaud exaggerates."†
Chpt 39-40
- "Not worth speaking of?" cried Chateau-Renaud; "life is not worth speaking of!†
Chpt 39-40
- "Well, I do not prevent your sitting down to table," replied Beauchamp, "Chateau-Renaud can tell us while we eat our breakfast."†
Chpt 39-40
Definition:
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(chateau) an impressive country house (or castle) in France