Eiffel Tower

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The Eiffel Tower (French: tour Eiffel) is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. The city's most iconic landmark, it is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built it from 1887 to 1889.^[1]

History[edit | edit source]

Belle Époque[edit | edit source]

The Eiffel Tower was built during the Belle Époque for the 1889 World's Fair and became a symbol of France's new engineering prowess,^[2] and eventually the central icon of Paris.^[3]

In 1889, days before its completion, the French Brotherhood led by the Master Assassin Michel Moulin planned to bomb the tower out of fear that the Templars led by Countess Konstanze von Visler were preparing to use the Engine of History atop the structure.^[4] On the day of the mission, the British Assassin Simeon Price followed Konstanze, his former lover, and her decoy as they climbed the tower. Confronting them, he was told that the girl besides Konstanze was allegedly their daughter Gisela. Trying to stop them, Simeon was rendered motionless by Gisela and the Apple of Eden she was holding.^[5]

Fortunately, Gisela was knocked down by Spider Wallin, who came to tell Simeon of Konstanze's actual plan to frame the Assassins as terrorists and what the Engine of History truly was. Confronting Konstanze, Simeon fought her and pinned her against a metal frame with his blade at her neck. However, Gisela pushed Simeon off her, unintentionally cutting her mother's neck. Escaping together, Konstanze and Gisela used their gliding devices to soar down, but Konstanze's injury proved fatal and she crashed.^[5]

With no time to lose, Simeon and Spider sent a Morse code using the tower's light fixtures to their allies below and stopped the explosion from happening. Removing their explosive devices, the Assassins stopped themselves from becoming criminals.^[5]

World War II[edit | edit source]

During World War II, the tower became a symbolic battleground. Adolf Hitler ordered its demolition, but his orders were never carried out, and the occupying Germans would later deck it with Nazi banners. In 1944, United States fighter pilot Captain William Overstreet Jr. pursued a German plane over the city, and damaged the fighter's engine. The German pilot attempted to shake off his pursuer by flying close to the Eiffel Tower, with some claiming he flew underneath it. This did not work, and the Nazi plane crashed to the ground.^[3]

Modern times[edit | edit source]

In 2014, a Helix Initiate reliving the memories of the Assassin Arno Dorian during the French Revolution went through server bridges to avoid detection by Abstergo's server sweeps. Two of these bridges featured the Eiffel Tower, one set in 1898,^[6] and another during Paris' occupation in 1944.^[7]