1. What is Léon's greatest fear?
Léon is deathly afraid of the Revolution. It is a wonderful thing, and he really does believe that, but he also sees the potential it has to get out of hand, and is already doing so in some cases. As a lawyer too, he knows the importance of the trial, but knows that in many cases trials are not taking place like he should. Also, and probably more importantly, he fears that the Revolution will catch up with him, and he will be sent back to France to be guillotined.
2. Has Léon ever been in love?
Yes, several times. Almost 45 now, Léon has had several relationships, the least successful of all with his wife. Some years before he married her, he knew a young woman who worked in a seamstress's shop, and had a relationship with her. He would have married her, had he not left his home town to become a lawyer and work for his future father-in-law. But now he doubts whether things would have worked out well between them.
The mistress he had in the first few years of his marriage, a Parisian woman whom he meet during the stirrings of the Revolution was never a woman he particularly loved- they got along well and debated passionately, rather than argued and berated each other. But it was not to last, and she left him when her family moved from Paris.
3. What is Léon's happiest memory?
Passing the bar exam. He doubted he would be able to do it, and had prepared himself for failure. But he passed, and managed to get himself an apprenticeship in Bordeaux, in the town's most prestigious law firm.
4. Why does Léon like Nell?
At first, because he's useful. He's a smart boy, but it's a special, street sort of smart. It means that Nell is hardly ever caught doing what he shouldn't be, and if he is, well, it isn't difficult to talk his way out of it. He rather enjoys teaching the boy things, like to read, and write, and a little bit of French. He's (subconsciously, perhaps) trying to teach the boy how to be 'posh', or at least, more so than he is. Perhaps it isn't a good project for a man of the Revolution, but he can't help that.
5. What does Léon want most in the world?
He would like things to stay as they are. He has everything a man could need; money, power, a comfortable lifestyle, political influence, enough intrigue to keep his brain ticking over nicely, and a companion. Of course, he doesn't like the threat of his wife and the Revolution and the Committee of Public Safety looming over his head, but most of the time he ignore them, and carries on as he likes.
Léon is deathly afraid of the Revolution. It is a wonderful thing, and he really does believe that, but he also sees the potential it has to get out of hand, and is already doing so in some cases. As a lawyer too, he knows the importance of the trial, but knows that in many cases trials are not taking place like he should. Also, and probably more importantly, he fears that the Revolution will catch up with him, and he will be sent back to France to be guillotined.
2. Has Léon ever been in love?
Yes, several times. Almost 45 now, Léon has had several relationships, the least successful of all with his wife. Some years before he married her, he knew a young woman who worked in a seamstress's shop, and had a relationship with her. He would have married her, had he not left his home town to become a lawyer and work for his future father-in-law. But now he doubts whether things would have worked out well between them.
The mistress he had in the first few years of his marriage, a Parisian woman whom he meet during the stirrings of the Revolution was never a woman he particularly loved- they got along well and debated passionately, rather than argued and berated each other. But it was not to last, and she left him when her family moved from Paris.
3. What is Léon's happiest memory?
Passing the bar exam. He doubted he would be able to do it, and had prepared himself for failure. But he passed, and managed to get himself an apprenticeship in Bordeaux, in the town's most prestigious law firm.
4. Why does Léon like Nell?
At first, because he's useful. He's a smart boy, but it's a special, street sort of smart. It means that Nell is hardly ever caught doing what he shouldn't be, and if he is, well, it isn't difficult to talk his way out of it. He rather enjoys teaching the boy things, like to read, and write, and a little bit of French. He's (subconsciously, perhaps) trying to teach the boy how to be 'posh', or at least, more so than he is. Perhaps it isn't a good project for a man of the Revolution, but he can't help that.
5. What does Léon want most in the world?
He would like things to stay as they are. He has everything a man could need; money, power, a comfortable lifestyle, political influence, enough intrigue to keep his brain ticking over nicely, and a companion. Of course, he doesn't like the threat of his wife and the Revolution and the Committee of Public Safety looming over his head, but most of the time he ignore them, and carries on as he likes.
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