Most likely this event inspired Dumas, who put a similar hack in his Count of Monte Cristo novel. It’s funny that Dumas’s hack is less sophisticated that the on

Most likely this event inspired Dumas, who put a similar hack in his Count of Monte Cristo novel. It’s funny that Dumas’s hack is less sophisticated that the one done in real life, but the whole chapter is quite well written. It’s available online at [1]. [1] https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_61 https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/C...