Pierre Picaud

Pierre Picaud
Born
François Pierre Picaud

(1780-05-02)2 May 1780
France
Died1815(1815-00-00) (aged 34–35)
France
OccupationsShoemaker, later aristocrat

François "Pierre" Picaud (French: [piko]) was a 19th-century shoemaker in Nîmes, France who may have been the basis for the character of Edmond Dantès in Alexandre Dumas, père's 1844 novel The Count of Monte Cristo.

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