Paris

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"One day, when all this is over, I will invite you to Paris to stay with me and my family. She is the most beautiful city in all the world, Connor, full of art and culture, women and wine."

―Marquis de Lafayette, 1778.^[src]

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

History

Founding

The city of Paris began in the 3rd century BC when a Celtic tribe called the Parisii built a fortified settlement on the Ile de la Cite.

Early Ages

The Romans conquered the Parisii in 52 AD and they built a town on the River Seine. The Romans called Paris Lutetia.

In the late 3rd century Paris and the surrounding region were converted to Christianity. However by then the Roman Empire was in decline. In 486 a race called the Franks captured Paris.

Middle Ages

In the Middle Ages Paris grew rapidly and it became one of the largest towns in Europe. King Philippe-Auguste built the Louvre fortress and a wall around Paris.

On 18 March 1314, Pope Clement V, influenced by the Assassin Order, had Jacques de Molay, the Grand Master of the Templar Order, burned at the stake in the city. His death marked the disbanding of Knights Templar, and their conversion into an organization operating in secret.

Rennaissance

During the Renaissance, France was ruled by King Louis XII, though he left the kingdom under the charge of his courtiers, who were secretly allied with the Templars. A group of Italian Assassins, sent by their Mentor, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, traveled to Paris to battle that Templar influence.^[1]

In 1527, Giovanni Borgia and Maria Amiel traveled to the Louvre in order to find the second half of "the Book", which had been used by Nicolas Flamel to turn lead into gold. Afterwards, they visited the Flamel tomb in Paris' Holy Innocents' Cemetery, but only found it devoid of bodies, or any sign of the Book.^[2]

Before the Revolution

In 1776, the Assassin Charles Dorian, attended an Assassin meeting at the Palace of Versailles. However, as Charles searched for his son following the meeting, he was assassinated by the Templar Shay Cormac.

As he died, Charles told Shay that the American Revolution had undone the Templars' work in the newly-formed United States of America. Shay suggested that the Templars could stage another revolution, in order to restore the balance of power between the two factions.

French Revolution

From 1789 to 1799, period of social and political upheaval occurred in France due to the extravagance of the aristocracy. This, coupled by famine and economic turmoil, gradually enraged the French masses and eventually sparked a revolution against the aristocracy.

19th Century

Sometime towards the end of the 19th century, Samuel Liddell Mathers, accompanied by the disembodied being of William Robert Woodman, met one of the Secret Chiefs in Paris. The Chief, who wore a ring marked with the Templar insignia, informed Mathers that his Order's partnership with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn had ended.^[3]

Modern Times

In 2014, Eric Cooper set up an Assassin headquarters in Paris to help infiltrate a data hub for the Helix, Abstergo Entertainment's upcoming cloud-based game service.^[4]

Trivia

Paris is also the name of a character from Greek mythology, mostly known for judging the beauty of Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite; this eventually led to the fall of Troy during the Trojan War. He also held an Apple of Eden.