Léon is one of the henchmen involved in carrying out the Southerner’s plots, whether that be kidnapping, murder or torture.   Since childhood Léon has hated authority and being told what to do or how to behave.  He has an uncontrollable temper.  As an adolescent, he attacked his mother so badly that he was imprisoned. The

‘Paul’ (his name is in inverted commas because it’s not his real name) is a minor character on the wrong side.  He started life as an informant, a pretty common and mundane occupation in the Paris of Louis XV - (Casanova himself was a spy at different times in his life, both for the French