Lors d'une chasse sur les bords du Rhin,le comte Elim s'égare et doit passer la nuit dans un vieux château dont la légende dit que les comtesse mortes une nuit de Noël ne meurent qu'à demi...
Alexander Dumas (1802–1870), author of more than ninety plays and many novels, was well known in Parisian society and was a contemporary of Victor Hugo. After the success of The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas dumped his entire fortune into his own Chateau de Monte Cristo-and was then forced to flee to Belgium to escape his creditors. He died penniless but optimistic.