With the Abbé Faria locked up in the Castle of If, Alexandre Dumas invents the archetype of the political prisoner victim of the ferocity of a sinister prison system, based on arbitrary, secret and isolation, which would have gone through the political upheavals intact, the Empire first and then the Restoration. In reality, the novelist describes and defends another prison system, however considered by historians as much more benevolent: that of…
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With the Abbé Faria locked up in the Castle of If, Alexandre Dumas invents the archetype of the political prisoner victim of the ferocity of a sinister prison system, based on arbitrary, secret and isolation, which would have gone through the political upheavals intact, the Empire first and then the Restoration. In reality, the novelist describes and defends another prison system, however considered by historians as much more benevolent: that of…