He was usually a myth, of course.

As Mrs.Prig observed to Mrs.Camp, "there never was no sich person." III Charles Garnier, the Parisian architect, came and built the Casino, next to the Library of Congress at Washington and the Grand Opera House at Paris the most beautiful building in the world, with incomparable gardens and commanding esplanades to set it off and display it.
Around it palatial hotels and private mansions and villas sprang into existence.

Within it a gold-making wheel of fortune fabricated the wherewithal.

Old Man Grimaldi in his wildest dreams of land-piracy--even Old Man Hohenzollern, or Old Man Hapsburg--never conceived the like.
There is no poverty, no want, no taxes--not any sign of dilapidation or squalor anywhere in the principality of Monaco.

Yet the "people," so called, have been known to lapse into a state of discontent.