Fernand Mondego

Fernand Mondego is a fictional character from the 1844 adventure novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. He serves as one of the story’s three primary antagonists, alongside Baron Danglars and Gérard de Villefort. At the start of the novel, he is a Catalan fisherman living in Marseilles who is in love with his cousin, Mercédès Herrera.

Driven by jealousy over Mercédès’s engagement to the protagonist, Edmond Dantès, Fernand orchestrates his rival’s downfall. He mails the accusation letter that results in Dantès being imprisoned in the Château d’If.