Aloys la Touche

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"So, this is what France has come to. Parasites bleeding the Revolution dry."

―La Touche overseeing a public execution, 1793.

Aloys la Touche (unknown – 1793) was a former tax assessor who became a member of the Parisian Rite of the Templar Order during the French Revolution.

Initially an enforcer for the Roi des Thunes at the Cour des Miracles, la Touche advanced up the Templar hierarchy after his master's assassination. He was later sent to Versailles to spread the Reign of Terror by carrying out mass executions.

Biography

Working for the Roi des Thunes

Beggar: "Please, no! I've done all I can, it's the times! No one wants to-"

La Touche: "His Grace doesn't care about excuses. He cares about results. If you can't make your quotas, he makes... adjustments. Doctor, cut his foot off."

—La Touche punishing one of the beggars, 1791.

Before the French Revolution, la Touche was part of the middle-class and worked as a tax assessor. However, after discovering that 10,000 livres had been stolen from King Louis XVI's treasury and reporting this to his superior, la Touche was dismissed from the office and charged with bribery.

Unable to find employment elsewhere, he became frustrated with the aristocrats controlling the administration of the kingdom, believing that they were more interested in personal profit than doing their jobs. Disillusioned and disgraced, la Touche joined the Cour des Miracles, where his newfound cruelty and his knowledge of the economy helped him become the right-hand man of the Roi des Thunes.

While at the tavern one night, he was approached by Charles Gabriel Sivert, who had heard the tales la Touche had been telling about his new master. The Roi des Thunes' subsequent involvement in the murder of Grand Master François de la Serre led to both men being recruited into a radical faction within the Templar Order, with at its head the self-proclaimed Grand Master François-Thomas Germain.

As a result, the Cour des Miracles became a way of funding the Templars, with the rising quotas being viciously enforced by la Touche; those who did not meet the required amount were crippled to inspire more pity from Paris' citizens. On January 19, 1791, la Touche made his rounds as usual, following which he returned to his clinic.

Upon arriving there, la Touche concluded something was amiss and quickly hurried inside. Shortly thereafter, he was confronted by the Assassin Arno Dorian, who used shackles attached to a nearby wall to restrain the Templar. Fearing for his life, la Touche quickly succumbed to Arno's demands and gave up the location of the Roi des Thunes.

La Touche reporting to the Roi des Thunes

After the Assassin's departure, la Touche managed to free himself and rushed to the catacombs to warn his master, who ordered his enforcer to lead a search party and eliminate Arno. However, when la Touche actually came across the Assassin, he sealed himself behind a gate and pointed Arno in the direction of the Roi des Thunes, before fleeing the sewers. His master was subsequently assassinated and control over the Court des Miracles passed to the Marquis de Sade.

Enforcing the Reign of Terror in Versailles

After the death of the Roi des Thunes, la Touche met up with other high-ranking Templars at the Hotel de Beauvais to discuss their next move with Germain. When Marie Lévesque noted that they were being targeted by Chrétien Lafrenière, la Touche informed her that Lafreniere had in fact been killed hours previously by an Assassin who had been manipulated into doing so by Germain. He also berated Frédéric Rouille for having a prisoner thrown out of a window, noting that it could blow the meeting.

Germain later placed la Touche at the services of the fellow Templar Maximilien de Robespierre, to spread propaganda as a way of expanding the Templar influence among the populace. Robespierre entrusted la Touche to oversee his Reign of Terror in Versailles, where he arrested and executed dozens of people. Due to la Touche's role in the turmoil in Versailles, he was feared and hated among the populace.

Eventually, Arno Dorian decided to end la Touche's reign of terror over Versailles in 1793, having witnessed the population suffering under it. Arno tracked the Templar to a public square where he was overseeing the execution of several people accused of hoarding food, including Arno's former acquaintances Hugo and Victor. In actuality, most of the condemned were merely guilty of stealing bread to feed themselves and their families, but la Touche ordered them brought forward anyway. To his unutterable horror, however, the first prisoner to be marched forwards was none other than Arno himself, who quickly broke free and stabbed la Touche with his Hidden Blade before the Templar could escape. From his memories, Arno gleaned Robespierre's involvement and marked him as his next target. Arno also witnessed la Touche being dismissed from his job and his subsequent recruitment by the Roi des Thunes.

Trivia

• In the internal files of Assassin's Creed: Unity, he is named "Treville la Touche".

Gallery

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  Concept art of la Touche
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  La Touche being fired
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  La Touche with his new compatriots
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  La Touche overseeing the amputation of a foot
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  La Touche arriving at the clinic
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  La Touche attacking Arno
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  Arno interrogating la Touche
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  La Touche overseeing an execution
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  La Touche's assassination profile

Reference

• Assassin's Creed: Unity