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| =[[Lens Mining Company]]=
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| The '''Lens Mining Company''' (French: ''Compagnie des mines de Lens'') was the company responsible for the extraction of coal in the {{Wiki|Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin}} of Northern [[France]]. It was established in 1852 and operated in the city of [[Lens]] until it was nationalized in 1946,[REF WIKI] with its main building being later transformed into the [[Faculty of Sciences]] of the {{Wiki|University of Artois}}. Besides mining, the company also operated with construction, building not only the housing estates for its employees, but also many amenities in the city such as a school, a clinic and a {{Wiki|fr:Église Saint-Théodore de Lens|church}}.[REF MIN]
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| At some point, the company closed operations at the many mines, including [[Lens mining site number 9]], transferring the workers into the construction of the [[Stade Bollaert-Delelis|Bollaert-Delelis stadium]] with assistance from [[Abstergo Industries]], who used such operations as a cover for their investigations on a lost [[Templars|Templar]] treasure in the region. Unbeknownst to both companies, miner [[Henri Mulio]] had already located and hidden the treasure by then,[REF MIN] which would only be recovered by his great-grandson[REF INTERVIEW] [[Simon Mulio]] in the 2020s.[REF MIN]
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| =[[Church of Saint-Léger]]=
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| {{Era|Landmarks}}{{WP-REAL|fr:Église Saint-Léger de Lens}}
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| The '''Church of Saint-Léger''' is a church in [[Lens]], [[France]] dedicated to {{Wiki|Leodegar|Saint Léger of Autun}}.
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| First built during the 10th centry CE,[REF WIKI] the original church was destroyed by the Spanish[REF MIN] during the {{Wiki|Thirty Years' War}}. Though rebuilt in 1776,[REF WIKI] the relentless bombing of the city during [[World War I]] would once again reduce the church to rubble, along with over 98% of Lens. After the war, it was rebuilt with the assistance of [[Abstergo Industries]], who used the reconstruction effort as a pretext to conduct a survey of the city center as part of their investigations of a lost [[Templars|Templar]] treasure.[REF MIN]
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| In the 2020s, [[Simon Mulio]] visited the church during his own search for the treasure and, after his disappearance, an Abstergo employee tracking him did the same.[REF MIN]
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| =[[Henri Mulio]]=
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| '''Henri Mulio''' (1886 – 1922)[REF INTERVIEW] was a miner employed by the [[Lens mining company]]. While working at [[Lens mining site number 9|mining site number 9]] in the city of [[Lens]], Henri discovered a long-lost [[Templars|Templar]] treasure. Though initially surprised, Henri quickly re-hid the treasure further in the tunnels and informed the foreman it had been a false alarm. The treause would remain hidden until the 2020s, when his great-grandson, the [[Assassins|Assassin]] ally [[Simon Mulio]], retrieved it.[REF MIN]
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| =[[Simon Mulio]]=
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| '''Simon Mulio''' (born 1974) is a [[France|French]] [[Assassins|Assassin]] ally, who works as an informant. He is the great-grandson of miner [[Henri Mulio]].[REF INTERVIEW]
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| ==Biography==
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| In the early 2020s , Mulio explored the city of [[Lens]] in search of clues to a mysterious [[Templars|Templar]] treasure once discovered by his great-grandfather, who had worked at the [[Lens mining site number 9|mining site number 9]] for the [[Lens mining company]]. He visited a number of landmarks in the city, such as the [[Stade Bollaert-Delelis]] and the [[Church of Saint-Léger]], being picked up on [[Abstergo Industries]' surveillance, who had long suspected him of having ties to the Assassins.[REF MIN]
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| Simon forged an employee badge and infiltrated the [[Louvre-Lens]] museum, which had been built atop mining site number 9, installing a computer security system that prevented the treasure's location in an underground gallery from being found. After searching the gallery and finding the treasure himself, Mulio passed the information onto the Brotherhood. Noticing his actions had drawn further attention from Abstergo, Mulio took the treasure through the tunnels to [[Lens station]] and escaped,[REF MIN] with Abstergo failing to locate him since the incident.[REF INTERVIEW]
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| =[[Faculty of Sciences]]=
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| The '''Faculty of Sciences''' is the main building of the [[Lens]] campus of the {{Wiki|University of Artois}}.
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| Originally the the offices for the [[Lens mining company]],[REF MIN] the building is adorned with eighteen {{Wiki|Dormer|dormer windows}}, built to represent the eighteen mines they operated. At their productive peak, a [[train]] platform was once installed for the shareholders, removing the need to go to [[Lens station]] proper.[REF MIN]
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| In the early 1990s, the building had passed into the hands of the university[REF WIKI UNI] and, in 1994,[REF https://e-monumen.net/patrimoine-monumental/le-mineur-lens/ ] a bronze statue of a miner was installed in the gardens, made by Hungarian artist Daniel Ference Nagy.[REF MIN] In the 2020s, [[Assassins|Assassin]] ally [[Simon Mulio]] visited the university during his search for a [[Templars|Templar]] treasure and, after his disappearance, an [[Abstergo Industries|Abstergo]] employee tracking him did the same.[REF MIN]
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| =[[Lens station]]=
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| '''Lens station''' (French: ''Gare de Lens'') is a [[Train|railway]] station in [[Lens]], [[France]]. Originally built in 1860,<ref>{{Wiki|fr:Gare de Lens (Pas-de-Calais)}}</ref> it remains an important transit point to this day.[REF MIN]
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| Destroyed along much of the city during [[World War I]], it was quickly rebuilt, with its new shape evoking a locomotive, illustrating the Art Deco influence of the period. To compensate for the deficiencies of a soil weakened by underground mining tunnels carved by the [[Lens mining company|local mining company]], the foundations were reinforced with hydraulic jacks to prevent it from collapsing.[REF MIN]
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| In the 2020s, [[Assassins|Assassin]] ally [[Simon Mulio]] visited the station during his search for a [[Templars|Templar]] treasure and, after locating it, he moved it through the tunnels underneath the station before escaping. After his disappearance, an [[Abstergo Industries|Abstergo]] employee tracking him also visited the location.[REF MIN]
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| =[[Stade Bollaert-Delelis]]=
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| The '''''Stade Bollaert-Delelis''''' is a football stadium in [[Lens]], [[France]]. It can accommodate more than 38,000 people, a number higher than the city's population of 32,000.[REF MIN]
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| After the closure of some mines administered by the [[Lens mining company]], the workers were assigned to the construction of the stadium. Assistance was provided by [[Abstergo Industries]], who used such operations as a cover for their investigations on a lost [[Templars|Templar]] treasure in the region.[REF MIN]
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| In 1998, the stadium hosted a World Cup match between France and Paraguay, making Lens the smallest city to have hosted such a match.[REF MIN]
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| In the 2020s, [[Assassins|Assassin]] ally [[Simon Mulio]] visited the landmark during his search for the treasure, and uncovered that the link to Abstergo. After his disappearance, an Abstergo employee tracking him also visited the stadium.[REF MIN]
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| =[[Lens mining site number 9]]=
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| The '''Lens mining site number 9''' was one of the [[coal]] mines operated by the [[Lens mining company]] in the {{Wiki|Pas-de-Calais}} department in northern [[France]].
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| At some point during its operation, miner [[Henri Mulio]] discovered a long-lost [[Templars|Templar]] treasure in the tunnels, quickly re-hiding it further in, though some rumors about something important having been found did circulate among the workers.[REF MIN]
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| Having produced a large quantity of coal for several decades, the site eventually ceased operations in 1960. In 1980, the mining site was backfilled and, in 2012, the [[Louvre-Lens]] museum would be built atop it, with the grove of trees in front of the building's main entrance being located on the site of the former mine shaft entrance, and with a secret gallery linking it to some remaining tunnels below. In the 2020s, [[Assassins|Assassin]] ally [[Simon Mulio]] infiltrated the museum during his search for the treasure, managing to uncover its hiding place. Knowing he had been under Abstergo surveillance, he used the tunnels to move the treasure through to [[Lens station]], where he made his escape.[REF MIN]
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| =[[Louvre-Lens]]=
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| '''''Louvre-Lens''''' is an art museum located in [[Lens]], [[France]]. It is a satellite museum of the [[Louvre]], which lends its collections to the smaller gallery on medium- or long-term basis.<ref>{{Wiki|Louvre-Lens}}</ref> Its main gallery, the ''Gallery du temps'', has its works displayed along two axes: in depth they are organized according to chronology and horizontally they are organized according to their continent of origin.
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| ==History==
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| Created in 2012, the Louvre-Lens was built atop the [[Lens mining site number 9]], which had been backfilled in 1980. Not only was the grove of trees in front of the building's main entrance located on the site of the former mine shaft entrance, the museum also included a hidden gallery linked to some remaining tunnels beneath.
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| In the 2020s, [[Assassins|Assassin]] ally [[Simon Mulio]] infiltrated the Louvre-Lens during his search for a [[Templars|Templar]] treasure. In order to do so, Mulio had forged an employee badge to be allowed free access to the site. While there, he not only managed to locate the underground gallery, the entrance to which had been concealed behind the portrait of [[Napoleon Bonapart]] crossing the [[Alps]], but also the treasure contained within. Knowing he had been under surveillance by [[Abstergo Industries|Abstergo]], Mulio implemented a computer security system at the museum to try and protect the gallery, before moving the treasure through the tunnels to [[Lens station]] and leaving town. After his disappearance, an Abstergo employee tracking him also visited the location, even managing to find the underground gallery, but by this point it was already empty.[REF MIN]
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| =[[Lens]]=
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| '''Lens''' is a city in the {{Wiki|Pas-de-Calais}} department in northern [[France]]. The city is surrounded by immense black hills, the highest {{Wiki|Coal refuse|slag heaps}} in [[Europe]], that were formed by decades of accumulation of mining waste extracted from the tunnels operated by the [[Lens mining company]].
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| *Among his many actions as an Assassin, Mirabeau also managed to confirm the presence of a Templar treasure in the region of Lens.[7]
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| *The Lens mining company [established 1852] wasn't limited to mining infrastructure. It built everything necessary for its workers and their families: a school, a clinic, a church… and even a stadium! The most sophisticated houses at the entrance to the miners' housing estates were intended for positions of responsibility (surveyor, engineer, etc.). They allowed the mine managers to be close to the extraction site and to observe the comings and goings of the workers on a daily basis.
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| *There are numerous pits in the region. The countless galleries have transformed the subsoil of the region into a veritable Swiss cheese.
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| Early 20th century
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| *Abstergo believed that a Templar treasure is buried somewhere beneath Lens.
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| *Lens was one of the cities most severely affected during the First World War. It was almost 99% destroyed. In addition to being on the front line, its capacity for extracting mineral resources made it a prime target.
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| *Lens had approximately 20,000 miners out of a population of 40,000.
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| *the site eventually ceased operations in 1960. In 1980, the mining site was backfilled
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| *In 1998, Lens became the smallest city to have hosted a World Cup match, having the French and Paraguayan national teams face off in the [[Stade Bollaert-Delelis]].
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| *Louvre-Lens was created in 2012.
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| *In the early 2020s , Simon Mulio explored the city of [[Lens]] in search of clues to a mysterious [[Templars|Templar]] treasure once discovered by his great-grandfather, [[Henri Mulio]], who had worked at the [[Lens mining site number 9|mining site number 9]] for the [[Lens mining company]]. He visited a number of landmarks in the city, such as the [[Stade Bollaert-Delelis]] and the [[Church of Saint-Léger]], being picked up on [[Abstergo Industries]' surveillance, who had long suspected him of having ties to the Assassins.[REF MIN]
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| *In the 2020s, [[Assassins|Assassin]] ally [[Simon Mulio]] infiltrated the Louvre-Lens during his search for a [[Templars|Templar]] treasure. In order to do so, Mulio had forged an employee badge to be allowed free access to the site. While there, he not only managed to locate the underground gallery, the entrance to which had been concealed behind the portrait of [[Napoleon Bonapart]] crossing the [[Alps]], but also the treasure contained within. Knowing he had been under surveillance by [[Abstergo Industries|Abstergo]], Mulio implemented a computer security system at the museum to try and protect the gallery, before moving the treasure through the tunnels to [[Lens station]] and leaving town. After his disappearance, an Abstergo employee tracking him also visited the location, even managing to find the underground gallery, but by this point it was already empty.[REF MIN]
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