Philippe Danglars was a 19th-century French shipping magnate. Danglars initially worked as first mate aboard the merchant ship Pharaon during the Napoleonic era, but he was passed over for promotion to captain by Edmond Dantès in 1815 after Dantès took initiative in coming ashore on Elba in an attempt to save Captain Reynaud Leclère's life, a move that Danglars opposed. A jealous Danglars learned from a drunk Fernand Mondego, another crew member, that Dantès had smuggled a letter from Napoleon to Marseille, leading Danglars and Mondego to conspire against Dantès; they informed magistrate Gérard de Villefort of the letter, resulting in Dantès' arrest. Danglars was promoted to captain and partnered with his boss Patrice Morell to run the company before sacking Morell and taking charge himself. In 1831, however, Dantès - disguised as the Count of Monte Cristo - tricked Mondego, Villefort, and Danglars into conspiring to steal a shipment of Count Enrique Spada's golden treasures as it arrived in Marseille; Villefort would impound the shipment at the docks, where Danglars would steal it. Dantès paid Villefort more than Mondego did, and Villefort's gendarmes arrived to arrest Danglars for piracy. When Dantès arrived to confront Danglars on the deck of the ship, Danglars attempted to lash out at Dantès, who managed to tie a rope around Danglars' neck and reveal his true identity before kicking him off the side of the ship. Dantès had the gendarmes cut Danglars down before he couldn't speak, and Danglars was arrested and imprisoned for his crimes.
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