François “Pierre” Picaud (French: [piko]) was a 19th-century shoemaker in Nîmes, France who may have been the basis for the character of Edmond Dantès in Alexandre Dumas, père’s 1844 novel The Count of Monte Cristo.

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    22 hours ago

    Allut’s deathbed confession forms the bulk of the French police records of the case [about Picaud]. The detailed description of Picaud’s experiences in prison, which could not have been known to Allut, were supposedly dictated to him by the ghost of Father Torri.

    Hmm, all sounds pretty sketchy. More like a screenplay itself than solid, verifiable facts.