How do readers know the stories in the circuit are from panchito's point of view?

They know why Panchito always uses the "I", "mine" and "me" pronouns, which leaves his own thoughts and feelings very clear and clarifies to the reader that this is his point of view in history.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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