"...sailed hard by Chateau d'If..."

While reading this novel, I've noticed a lot of French locations and imagery being presented so I wanted to do the diligence of looking some things up. I immediately sat up straighter at the image of this limestone prison! I'm reading the 🔗Penguin classics paperback, which has a detail of Phillipe Jacques de Loutherbourg's painting, Smugglers Landing in a Storm (I'll post other images below). I know the beats of this story and feel like this cover was really good imagery to pair with the story! While Loutherbourg didn't have a specific location named with this painting, the building does match in shape and construction similar enough to this prison that I think will become relevant again in the story. However, Dumas is giving a lot of imagery from early chapters of an almost idyllic French spring in the city of Marseille. I feel like the cover can help match the mood for the possible longer revisit to this prison, and how Dantes journey might heading towards. I love when cover artwork is this intentional and good at matching atmosphere within the text!