Pierre Picaud

Pierre Picaud
Born
François Pierre Picaud

(1780-05-02)2 May 1780
France
Died1825(1825-00-00) (aged 44–45)
France
Occupation(s)Shoemaker, 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.