from the count of monte cristo, by alexandre dumas

(note: the character, dantes, is a nineteen year old shipmate whose dying captain gave him a letter to deliver to napoleon bonaparte on the mediterranean island of elba. the novel is historical fiction.)

had been taken to prison, and he had gone to all his friends, and the influential persons of the city; but the report was already in circulation that dantes was arrested as a bonapartist agent; and as the most *sanguine looked upon any attempt of napoleon to remount the throne as impossible, he met with nothing but refusal, and had returned home in despair, declaring that the matter was serious and that nothing more could be

*sanguine means optimistic or hopeful.

how does the author of the count of monte cristo link his novel to real historical events?
a) by showing how none of dantes' friends will support him
b) by explaining how scared dantes is of going to prison
c) by setting his novel in france
d) by mentioning the real-life figure of napoleon bonaparte

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