User blog comment:D. Cello/Animus Hardware code decyphered/@comment-3467518-20110613215033/@comment-1625914-20110617165559

Cause the bulk of the Revolution WAS in Paris. The only other city I know in France is CHantily (thats french for whipped cream, seriously) and Normandy, the region of the D-Day attack. And I know about the Píc des Pyreneés, altough I have no idea where in France that is. Fracne just DONT have enough important stuff, it's like Japan. Fans like it, but most have no idea what they want. Paris is big, Paris could be a suitable location for a AC game, but it's already been covered in anotehr sandbox game and is just not original. Renaissance Italy is level infinite in originality when compared to France.

And besides, Miles is not a American surname, so it makes more sense for some Desmond's ancestor to have lived in London with the milesn ame first then going to USA then someone called Jean-Luc move tehre and change surnames. And the accent, the manneirisms, the regional features? Like the Auditore, the change isn't a one generation thing. His english roots must go deeper than that.