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On a small rocky island in the bay of Marseille stands the Chateau d'If, a sixteenth-century fortress made world-famous as the prison of Edmond Dantes in Alexandre Dumas's novel The Count of Monte Cristo. The fort was built on the orders of King Francis I between 1527 and 1531 to defend the approaches to the harbour of Marseille, a square three-storey keep with corner towers set on the bare limestone of the islet of If. Its strategic position never saw it tested in a great siege, and instead it ...