- Augustin: "Here for a fight, monsieur?"
- Arno: "Come again?"
- Augustin: "A training match, that is. An Assassin can never be too well-prepared."
- Arno: "Isn't our mandate to work in the shadows? Stay undetected and all that?"
- Augustin: "Call this the fallback option. Better to practice here in safety than pick a fight with ruffians in the streets, no?"
Augustin Grisier
Augustin Grisier was a fencing master of African heritage in the Café Théâtre owned by Arno Dorian, and a member of the French Brotherhood of Assassins. Augustin frequently trained with Arno in and out of the Café, honing his fellow Assassin's skills and fencing prowess with various weapons.
Biography[]
In 1793, the Café Théâtre's servant girl Célestine saw Augustin and Charlotte Gouze whispering together at midnight about the imminent closure of Paris' convents, part of the dechristianization of France during the French Revolution which greatly upset Augustin. The young girl gossiped it to the intendant, who subtly told her to mind her own business by asking her what she was doing out of her room at midnight.[1]
Later, bottles from the café's wine cellar were stolen and the cook lady reported it to the intendant, telling him that she had seen the café's gardener Colignon near the cellar. The intendant spoke of the matter with Célestine who did not believe Colignon was guilty, saying that a gardener would not have reason to keep the cellar key. Still suspicious, the intendant asked Célestine to follow Grisier and see what he was doing outside of the café because he found him mysterious and did not like to know so little about someone living in his house.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
Grisier is probably related or is loosely based on a famous fencing master of the same name born in 1791, Augustin-Edme-François Grisier, who was also known to be a good friend of the writer Alexandre Dumas, the son of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas.