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The Count of Monte Cristo is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, written with the collaboration of Auguste Maquet and whose publication began in the summer of 1844. It is partially inspired by the story of a news item, "Le Diamant et la Vengeance", published in 1838 in the Memoirs from the Police Archives, apocryphal memoirs written in large part by the writer Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon from the notes of Jacques Peuchet, archivist of the Police Headquarters.