Your Excellency
Chapter 46 - Unlimited Credit
Baron Danglars — aliases: The banker, Monsieur le Baron
Danglars arrives at the Count’s house to investigate an unlimited credit, confronts the Count at his own office, and ultimately yields to the Count's displayed wealth, granting him six million francs. He then attempts to flatter the Count by showing him art and introducing him to his wife and secretary.
Chapter 47 - The Dapple-Greys
Danglars / Baron — aliases: M. Danglars
Danglars introduces the Count to his wife and boastfully reveals he made a profit on the sale of her horses, only to be left pale and angry when the Count reveals he bought them back and returned them to the baroness.
Chapter 61 - How to Rescue a Gardener from Dormice Who Are Eating His Peaches
Danglars / M. Danglars — aliases: the speculator
Danglars, having received the news from his wife, sells his Spanish government bonds at any price, losing five hundred thousand francs in the process before the truth is revealed.
Chapter 62 - Ghosts
Baron — aliases: Danglars, the banker
Danglars arrives pale and ill-concealed, tearing leaves from an orange tree and pricking himself on a cactus. He asks about the Cavalcantis and makes a surry comment about horses, displaying his gloomy disposition.
Chapter 63 - Dinner
Danglars / Baron — aliases: M. Danglars
Danglars attends the dinner, questioning the Count about the fish and the house's history. He remains in the room when Madame Danglars faints, then goes down to the garden to talk with the Cavalcantis about a railway scheme, avoiding the Count's psychological warfare.
Chapter 65 - A Domestic Scene
Danglars / Baron
Danglars intercepts his wife’s guest and commands Debray to leave. He then confronts Hermine, accusing her of financial ruin through her liaison with Debray and exposing his knowledge of her past infidelities and financial dealings to assert total control over the household and her secrets.
Chapter 66 - Marriage Plans
Danglars / Baron Danglars — aliases: the banker
Danglars visits the Count of Monte Cristo after a day of financial distress and political agitation, detailing his losses in Spain and a bankruptcy in Trieste involving Jacopo Manfredi. He discusses the credit he opened for Major Cavalcanti's son, Andrea, and engages in a conversation with the Count that shifts from business to the social standing of the Cavalcantis versus the Morcerfs, eventually agreeing to investigate the past of Fernand Mondego.
Chapter 70 - The Ball
Danglars / Baron — aliases: the Baron
Danglars arrives at the ball and is approached by the Count, who reveals that he has been reimbursed by the bankrupt Frank and Poulmann firms before Danglars could honor their bills. Danglars turns pale, realizing his financial loss, and urges the Count to keep quiet about it in front of Andrea Cavalcanti.
Chapter 76 - The Progress of the Younger Cavalcanti
Danglars / Baron — aliases: Monsieur, the banker
Baron Danglars is visibly agitated by the news from Greece regarding Fernand and frustrated by Albert’s lack of jealousy over his daughter. He uses the Count’s presence to vent his anxieties about the match between Eugénie and Andrea, urging the Count to pressure the Morcerf family into finalizing the marriage contract.
Chapter 87 - Provocation
Danglars — aliases: the banker
Baron Danglars attempts to defend himself against Albert's accusations by revealing that the Count of Monte Cristo instructed him to write to Janina regarding Andrea Cavalcanti's background. He presents the letters as evidence of his innocence and asserts that he has no personal animosity toward the Morcerf family, effectively shifting the blame to the absent Count. He further claims that while he refused the formal marriage proposal, which was made at the Count's instigation, he did so without explanation and without concern for Morcerf's honor.
Chapter 95 - Father and Daughter
Danglars / Baron Danglars / M. Danglars — aliases: father, the baron
Danglars paces the drawing room in anxiety before his daughter arrives. He listens to her speech on independence, then reveals his impending financial collapse and need for her dowry to save his credit. He negotiates with her, accepts her conditional agreement to marry Andrea Cavalcanti, and presses her hand without expressing gratitude.
Chapter 96 - The Marriage Contract
Danglars / Baron — aliases: M. Danglars, the banker
Baron Danglars hosts the marriage contract signing, explaining his tax theories and expressing indifference to Villefort's absence. He is terrified when the Count reveals the evidence of Caderousse's murder and his own name on the incriminating letter, watching as the police commissioner arrives to investigate the accusation against Andrea.
Chapter 104 - The Signature of Baron Danglars
Danglars — aliases: Baron, King of Finance
Danglars feigns consolation to the Count but is seized by terror when forced to pay five million instantly. He later attempts to delay payment to M. de Boville by presenting the Count's receipt as collateral, while secretly packing cash and preparing a passport to flee Paris.
Chapter 114 - Peppino
Danglars / Excellency / Baron Danglars — aliases: Your Royal Highness
Arriving in Rome, Danglars withdraws five million francs from Thomson and French, feigning ignorance of the local language to the postilion. He is followed by a snooper, returns to his hotel, and the next day attempts to flee via post-chaise, only to be ambushed by bandits, driven back toward Rome, and imprisoned in a catacomb cell where he calculates a ransom of 8,000 écus and sleeps.
Chapter 115 - Luigi Vampa’s Bill of Fare
Danglars / Your Excellency / His Excellency — aliases: The banker
Danglars wakes in his cell and negotiates with his guard Peppino, who demands an exorbitant price for food. Realizing he is being systematically extorted, Danglars signs a bill for nearly five million francs to pay for a single chicken, which he eats with a sigh while Peppino finishes his own chick peas.
Chapter 116 - The Pardon
Danglars / Excellency — aliases: the prisoner, Signor Banker
Danglars wakes hungry in his cell, attempts to bribe his guards for food and water, and negotiates with Luigi Vampa over ransom. After two days of defiance, he signs bills for his survival, only to be starved further as his funds deplete. On the fifth day, he collapses in starvation, only to be pardoned by Edmond Dantès, who allows him to keep his last fifty thousand francs and his freedom, leaving Danglars with grey hair from the ordeal.