Parisian Rite of the Templar Order
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- "For centuries we have focused on the trappings of power: the titles of nobility, the offices of Church and State. Caught in the very lie we crafted to shepherd the masses... In the wake of revolution, the Order will adapt. They will retreat to the shadows and we will, at last, be the secret masters that we were meant to be."
- ―Germain to Élise de la Serre, regarding the Templars' agenda, 1794.[src]
The Parisian Rite of the Templar Order, sometimes known simply as the Paris Rite, was a group of Templars operating in Paris and Versailles, during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
The Rite was centered in Paris and notably managed to maintain a truce with the French branch of the Assassin Order, negotiated between the Grand Master François de la Serre and the Assassin Mentor Mirabeau, despite the opposition to the idea among the members of both factions.
Following a coup d'état within the Rite's ranks orchestrated by François-Thomas Germain, he was named as the new Grand Master and set in motion a series of events which culminated in the French Revolution, with his aim being revenge for the death of Jacques de Molay, and stripping French aristocracy and upper class of power, while granting it to the lower class citizens, making the populace easier to manipulate for the Templars.
During the Revolution, the Rite's key members were gradually eliminated by the Assassin Arno Dorian, who sought to avenge the death of his adoptive father, François de la Serre.