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Mr. Hector Ratichon-onetime aide to Robespierre and confidant of Napoleon Bonaparte-is a rascal and rogue of the highest order. Nevertheless, his service to France and his resulting adventures make entertaining reading.My name is Ratichon—Hector Ratichon, at your service, and I make so bold as to say that not even my worst enemy would think of minimizing the value of my services to the State. For twenty years now have I placed my powers at the disposal of my country: I have served the Republic, and was confidential agent to Citizen Robespierre; I have served the Empire, and was secret factotum to our great Napoléon; I have served King Louis—with a brief interval of one hundred days— for the past two years, and I can only repeat that no one, in the whole of France, has been so useful or so zealous in tracking criminals, nosing out conspiracies, or denouncing traitors as I have been. And yet you see me a poor man to this day: there has been a persistently malignant Fate which has worked against me all these years, and would—but for a happy circumstance of which I hope anon to tell you—have left me just as I was, in the matter of fortune, when I first came to Paris and set up in business as a volunteer police agent at No, 96 Rue Daunou.

Baroness Orczy was a novelist, playwright and artist born in Hungary to Baron Felix Orczy a well known composer and conductor. Orczy became famous in 1905 when she published The Scarlet Pimpernel and still is best known for his adventures. With the background of the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution her swashbuckling hero Sir Percy Blakeney represents the original hero with a secret identity. Her novels are Racy as she frequently favors historical fiction.

My name is Ratichon—Hector Ratichon, at your service, and I make so bold as to say that not even my worst enemy would think of minimizing the value of my services to the State. For twenty years now have I placed my powers at the disposal of my country: I have served the Republic, and was confidential agent to Citizen Robespierre; I have served the Empire, and was secret factotum to our great Napoléon; I have served King Louis—with a brief interval of one hundred days— for the past two years, and I can only repeat that no one, in the whole of France, has been so useful or so zealous in tracking criminals, nosing out conspiracies, or denouncing traitors as I have been.

My name is Ratichon-Hector ratichon, at your service, and I make so bold as to say that not even my worst enemy would think of minimizing the value of my services to the State. For twenty years now have I placed my powers at the disposal of my coountry: I have served the Republic, and was confidential agent to Citizen Robespierre; I have served the Empire, and was secret factotum to our great Napoleon; I have served King Louis-with a brief interval of one hundred days-for the past two years, and I can only repeat that no one, in the wole of France, has been so useful or so zealous in tracking criminals, nosing out conspiracies, or denouncing traitors as I have been. (1st paragraph)

Castles in the Air, a set of short stories with memoirs of a French swindler in the early years in the 19th century Paris. The novel was published in 1921. It was dedicated to the good friend of the author named Ratichon, who died years after when his last chapter of his autobiography was written. Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála"Emmuska" Orczy de Orci who was born on September 23, 1865. She was simply known for her pseudonym Baroness Orczy. She was born in Hungary but lived most of her life in London. She was an author, dramatist, and an artist of royal lineage. The Baronessis best known for her novel series especially the Scarlet Pimpernel, the Doppelganger of Sir Percy Blakeney, a rich British beau who changes into a dreadful gladiator and has a fast thinking of evasion, who shows the real hero with a hidden identity. A few of her paint works were displayed at the Royal Academy in London. She was the daughter of composer Baron Félix Orczy de Orci and Countess Emma Wass de Szentegyed et Cege, Her grandfather, Baron László Orczy was a royal councillor, and also knight of the Sicilian order of Saint George, her grandmother was the Baroness Magdolna Müller. Her maternal grandparents were the Count Sámuel Wass de Szentegyed et Cege, member of the Hungarian parliament, and Rozália Eperjessy de Károlyfejérvár. Emma's parents left their acreage for Budapest in 1868, for they fear of the danger of the revolt of the farmers. They settled in Budapest, Brussels, and Paris, and Emma studied music there but failed in doing so. Finally, in 1880, Emma, at the age of 14, and her family went to London where they rented with their countryman, Francis Pichler, at 162 Great Portland Street. The Baroness attended West London School of Art and then Heatherley's School of Fine Art.