The deputy royal prosecutor of Marseille. A highly talented, young, and insidious man. While celebrating his marriage with the family of a noblewoman he just became engaged to, he takes on Dantes' case. He sees Dantes' honesty and innocence and is about to grant him his freedom when he notices the conspiracy letter is addressed to Monsieur Noirtier (his own Bonapartist father). His father being accused would mean the end of his own career; to cover this up, he destroys the evidence, throws Dantes, an innocent young man, into the dungeon for life, and lies to curry favor with the King for his own career.
Although he is the son of Noirtier, a member of the Girondin committee, he changed his name to Villefort to completely cover up his father and his past, and cultivated the profile of a flighty Royalist. He held good positions in the palace of justice at a young age.
A young bourgeois-bureaucrat of twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, blue-eyed, with a matte complexion, black sideburns, a handsome and noble appearance, and well-dressed.
Edmond Dantes
The pathetic wretch he sacrificed to save his father, even though he knew Dantes was innocent.
Mösyö Noirtier
His father, the source of trouble who poses a political danger.
Kral XVIII. Louis
The absolute power to whom he markets his own loyalty.
Renee de Saint-Meran
His future wife, who confirms his nobility.