Paris

"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. But she is sick on the inside, black and rotting..."

- Marquis de Lafayette, 1778.

Paris is the capital and largest city of France. During the French Revolution, the city was divided in seven districts: Le Louvre, Île de la Cité, Le Marais, La Bièvre, Les Invalides, Quartier Latin, and Ventre de Paris.

Formation
Paris was founded during the 3rd century BCE, when a tribe named the  built a fortified settlement on the Île de la Cité.

Roman era
In 52 BCE, the Romans, led by Julius Caesar, conquered the Parisii Celts who inhabited the area and built a town on the Seine river, named Lutetia Parisiorum ("Swamp of the Parisii"). In the late 3rd century, Paris and its surrounding region were converted to. According to the legend, the bishop of Paris, Denis, was beheaded and martyred at by the Romans around 250 CE. Afterwards the saint's corpse walked to the village of Catolacus which became Saint-Denis, carrying his own head.

In the 5th century, the Roman Empire was in decline; the subsequently captured Paris in 486.

Middle Ages
In 558, the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés was constructed near Paris and will become one of the richiest abbey in France.

In the middle of the 7th century, the nobility funded the Hôtel-Dieu to serve as a refuge for the poor and sick. It became the first hospital of the city.

During the 10th century, the Kings of France established their residence in the Conciergerie on the Île de la Cité.

In 1130, the King Louis VI of France reinforced a wooden tower of which became the stone fortress of Grand Châtelet near the Place de Grève. Louis also ordered the construction of Les Halles and of the church and cemetery of Holy Innocents which became the cemetery for all churches.

In 1160 began the construction of the Notre-Dame Cathedral which was only ended in 1345. Notre-Dame was one of the first buildings to use flying buttresses in Europe.

During the, Paris grew rapidly and became one of the largest cities in Europe. In response to its expansion, King Philip Augustus constructed the Louvre fortress and a wall surrounding the town during the end of the 12th century. During his reign various markets and fairs were established in a place called Les Champeaux which will become known as Les Halles.

In 1240, returning from the, the Templars Order built their headquarters in Paris. The fortress was known as the Temple of Paris.

In 1242, King Louis IX of France ordered the construction of the Sainte-Chapelle to house the crown of thorns of Jesus Christ. The monument was finished in 1248 and served as the royal chapel. The Sainte-Chapelle was also the entry of the headquarters of the sworn ennemies of the Templars, the Assassins Brotherhood. The Brotherhood, established under the Île Saint-Louis, used the underground tunnels to navigate easily through the city.

In 1246, King Louis IX invented the position of Provost of the Merchants, which served as the mayor of the city of Paris. Robert de Sorbon, King's chaplain, sought to facilitate the education of underpriviliged children in theology. Louis IX gave him an house in the rue Coupe Gueule which was transformed as the university Sorbonne.

In 1296, the King Philip IV of France ordered the construction of the Palais de Justice in the Palais de la Cité, which served as juridical court for the Parlement de Paris.

In 1307, the Assassin Mentor Guillaume de Nogaret persuaded the King Philip to arrest the Templar Order and of their Grand Master Jacques de Molay. The 13th of October, the Assassins, disguised as flemish mercenaries, attacked the Temple de Paris with the French troops. The Master Assassin Thomas de Carneillon led the attack and tried to take Sword of Eden, a powerful piece of Eden, and also the Codex Pater Intellectus, de Molay's writings. During the attack, Carneillon fought Jacques de Molay's advisor but was out of action after he received a blast from the Sword of Eden. The advisor hid the Sword and the Codex in Jacques de Molay's vault before be killed by Carneillon who did found the artefacts. De Molay was arrested and imprisonned. In his cell, he hid the Heart, an artefact which unlock the abilities of the Sword of Eden. Jacques de Molay, who was also a Sage, an reincarnation of the First Civilization Aita, decided to reformed the Templar Order as a secret society revealing the secrets of the First Civilisation to nine Templars. On 18 March 1314, Jacques de Molay was burned at the stake before the King Philip and the Pope Clement V on the Île de la Cité. In his last words, de Molay cursed the the Pope and the royal family to the thirteen generation. De Molay's death marked the dissolution of the Knights Templar as a public organization and influenced their conversion into a secret faction.

In 1334, the Abbot of Cluny purchased the remains of a Roman thermal bath and turn it into a townhouse. The building was known as the Hôtel de Cluny.

During the 14th century, the Kings of France entered in the Hundred Years' War against the Kings of England. The attacked of the English troops created an eonomic instability, leading in 1358 to a Jacquerie, a peasant revolt. Other uprisings followed during the rest of the war. The King Charles V of France decided to reinforce the defense of Paris in this context. He deplaced the royal residence in the fortress of the Louvre and using the stones from the carries of Paris, he ordered the construction of the Bastille, a fort which will protected the east side of the city from English attack.

At the end of the 14th century, the scrivener and alchemist Nicolas Flamel established in Paris one of his laboratory under Notre-Dame. Thank to the Book of Abraham, he created the Philosopher's stone and the Elixir of life, which made him, according the legends, rich and immortal. With his fortune, Flamel financed the reconstruction of the Holy Innocent's Cemetery. Before his death, he seperated the Book of Abraham in two and giving one half to the nephew of his wife, Pernelle Flamel. In 1418, Flamel was buried in the Church of Saint-Jacques-la-Boucherie before be deplaced in the Holy Innocent's Cemetery where his wife was buried.

At the begin of the 15th century, Paris was taken by the Burgundians, the French allies of the English during the Hundred Years' War. The heir of the crown Charles established his new capital in Bourges. In 1429, Jeanne d'Arc, a young french farmer who was an ally of the French Assassins, led the French Army against the English, wielding De Molay's Sword of Eden and the heart. She besieged Paris with her troops but she was wounded by an crossbow bolt during the battle and the siege was removed.

After the end Hundred Years' War, the kings of France returned in Paris.

In 1485, the abbot of Cluny and bishop Jacques d'Amboise renovated the Hôtel de Cluny which became a luxurious guest house. Between 1475 and 1507, the Archbishop of Sens built his own hôtel particulier near the bank of the Seine.

Renaissance
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. They protected the scolar and Mentor Desiderius Erasmus against Templar agents and revealed that one of their brother was captured by the Templars. They interrogated the cardinal Georges d'Amboise, who gave them a list of ministers who worked with the Borgia, the leader of the Roman Rite of the Templar Order. The Assassins killed them and tried to saved their brother in a manor near Paris. He was tortured and died from his injuries but in his last breath he revealed that he gave false informations and that the Assassins must be wary about the Orsini.

In 1527, the Italian Assassin Giovanni Borgia and the Hermetic practitioner Maria Amiel traveled to the Louvre in order to find the second half of "Book of Abraham". They only found a copy made by human hands. Afterwards, they visited the Flamel tomb in Paris' Holy Innocents' Cemetery, but only found it devoid of bodies, or any sign of the Book.

Under the reign of Francis I of France, Paris had a more italian and Renaissance style. The Louvre and the Hôtel de Ville were renovated, the Saint-Jacques Tower and the Church of Saint-Eustache were constructed and a new bridge was built for the Hôtel-Dieu.

Francis' son, Henry II of France also renovated the Louvre but with his wife, Catherine de' Medici, they also built another palace in les Halles with an astronomy tower known as the Medici Tower. The Queen of France was the patron of Nostradamus, a famous seer in Paris. During his life, Nostradamus discovered the robe of the Assassin Thomas de Carneillon and locked it under the Île Saint-Louis. He separated the seals and hid them through the city leaving mysterious indications on their localization. Nostradamus also predicted the death of the King, who was wounded by the shard of a spear in the eye after a jousting tournament in Paris in 1559. The King died some days later from his injuries. His widow became the Regent of France, and as she found the Louvre too big, too cold, and too crowded, she decided to build of new royal residence, the Tuileries Palace. Many people were expropriate from the site of construction. One of them, Johannes Metzger, a German butcher, refused to leave his house. For this, he was arrested and executed in 1561. Before his death, he swore that he would return to exact revenge on the future palace's occupants. Soon after his death, supernatural appearances and disturbances around the palace were attributed to Metzger's vengeful spirit, known throughout the palace as the Red Ghost.

After the death of Henry II, the crown was taken successively by his three sons, which created a period of instability which was increased by the Wars of Religion between the catholics and the protestants in France. Even after the wedding between the Catholic Margaret of France, daughter of Henry II, and the Protestant King Henry III of Navarre, which reunited the protestant leaders in Paris for the ceremony, a serie of events led to the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre the 24th August 1572. The protestant leaders were killed and in the hysteria the population also. Henry III of Navarre succeeded to escape to the slaughter. In 1578 began the construction of a new brigde to connect the Île de la Cité with the two banks of the Seine. This bridge was known as the Pont Neuf (new bridge) but was also known as the pont des pleurs (the bridge of tears) as the King Henry III of France inaugurated the construction after the funerals of two of his Mignons. In 1589, Henry III was stabbed by the Catholic fanatic Jacques Clément. On his deathbed, he designated his brother-in-law Henry III of Navarre as his heir.

After a long siege of Paris, the now Henry IV of France decided to convert to Catholicism in 1593, supposedly stating that "Paris is well worth a mass". Converted in the city and ally with the first president of the Parliament of Paris, Achille de Harlay, this action stabilized the country, ending the War of Religions.

Under his reign, Paris was embellished with new buildings. He connected the Louvre with the Palais des Tuileries. In 1601, he ordered the construction of the Place Dauphine behind the Palais de Justice and gave it to Achille de Harlay. In 1605 began the construction of Place Royale on the very field where Henry II was mortally wounded. The Place served as a square with 36 pavillons. The same year, Margaret of France, the exwife of the King installed herself in the Hôtel de Sens. In 1606, her young lover Gabriel Dat de Saint-Julien was assassinated before the gate of the hôtel by the Comte de Vermont, a jealous suitor and former lover of hers. The 14th May 1610, Henry IV was assassinated in Paris on his carriage by the Catholic fanatic François Ravaillac.

Bourbon era
After the death of Henry IV, his eight-years-old son became Louis XIII of France. His mother, Marie de' Medici, became the Regent of France during his minority. She ordered the creation of an equestrian statue of her dead husband and began the construction of the Pont Marie. In 1612, she purchased the domaine of the Duke of Piney-Luxembourg in Paris and the architect Salomon de Brosse constructed for her the Luxembourg Palace with gardens. In 1622, Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal of Richelieu became the principal of the Sorbonne and as the buildings were falling in ruins, in 1629 he began the renovation of the University. In exchange of his expenses, he received the promise to be buried in the University's Chapel. Richelieu also ordered the construction of the Palais-Cardinal as his residence. From 1624 to his death, Richelieu was chosen by Louis XIII as his chief-minister, centralizing the French state and strengthening its power. The Bastille began to be used as a prison under Louis XIII. As Richelieu died in 1642, he was buried in the Sorbonne and his Palace was given to the royal family becoming the Palais-Royal.

Louis XIV of France began his reign when he was 5 years old, so the power was given to his mother, the Regent Anne of Austria, and his chief-minister, the Cardial Jules Mazarin. At his death, Mazarin left 2 million livres to construted the College of the Four Nations which served as a university for Paris. The science flourished in the city, in 1648 the Tour Saint-Jacques was used by Blaise Pascale for his experiments and in 1667 began the construction of the Paris Observatory. In 1671 began the construction of Les Invalides, an hospital for war veterans. During the 17th century, Le Marais became a fashionable district as the aristocrats began to constructed their hôtels-particuliers, like the chancellor Fieubet in 1676 and his Hôtel Fieubet. At the beginning of the reign, a revolt known as the Fronde occured in Paris, deciding the King to leave the city and installing the royal family in Versailles in 1682 where he constructed a palace from the hunt lodge of his father. The Bastille also became a political prison for turbulent aristocrats. In 1686, the Sicilian chef Procopio Cutò opened the Café Procope which will became one of the most famous cafés of the city. Louis XIV ordered the construction of the Place Vendôme to create a monument to his glory and embellish Paris with an equestrian statue of himself.

At the beginning of the 18th century, Louis-Dominique Cartouche became famous as a highwayman, stealing from the rich and giving to the poors near Paris. In 1721, he was captured and sentenced to death. His lover Mireille, who was the leader of the French Assassins, saved Cartouche by faking his death on the breaking wheel. Later Cartouche became an Assassin, and his name as his diaries were passed on to two other Assassins during the 18th century.

During the 18th century, the construction continued in Paris. In 1744, Louis XV of France suffered from a serious illness. If he survived, he made the vow to constructed a new church on the ruins on the Abbey of St Genevieve. In 1755 began the construction of the new church and was ended in 1790. In 1752, the first stone of the École Militaire was laid under the overseer of Madame de Pompadour, Louis XV's mistress. In 1750, the Luxembourg Palace became the first museum of Paris. In 1755 began the construction of the Halle aux Blés, which served as a grain storage building for the city. Louise Françoise de Bourbon, a legitimized daughter of Louis XIV, ordered the construction of the Palais Bourbon which was purchased by Louis XV in 1756. In 1759, the Café Théâtre opened in the Île de la Cité, becoming one of the premier coffee house of Paris. The Assassins purchased and used it as their intelligence-gathering network. In 1772 was finished the Place Louis XV near the jardins des Tuileries. Two years before, a fireworks display was made for the celebration of the wedding of the dauphin Louis-Auguste and Marie Antoinette on the place but an accident provoked the death of 132 persons.

But Paris was also the center of the contestation of the King's power. Many philosophers of Enlightenment reunited in cafés, like the Procope or the Régence to discuss of politics and philosophy. Among them Voltaire, Diderot and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. This last witnessed the pauvrety of some districts, describing the district Saint-Marcel as "dirty, stinking little streets, wretched black houses, a general air of squalor and poverty, beggars, carters, menders of clothes, sellers of herb-drinks and old hats." In the Saint-Denis district, a counter socity known as the Cour des Miracles reuniting the beggars and the marginal people of the city. The Cour had his own chief known as the King of Beggars. The American philosopher Benjamin Franklin joined his French colleagues in the cafés discussions during his diplomatical mission in France for the United States during the American Revolution. In December 1776, Franklin was targeted by Parisian criminals but was saved by the former Assassin turned Templar Shay Cormac. Cormac searched a way to join an Assassin reunion in the Versailles palace and recovered a Precursor box, so as Franklin was in debt with Cormac for saving his life, the diplomat autorirized the Templar to follow him to the royal residence. During the reign of Louis XVI, the corps buried in the Holy Innocents' Cemetery were deplace in the quarries which will become the Catacombs of Paris. In 1783, the first hot-air balloon flight was experiment in Paris. From the begining of the reign of Louis XVI and 1789, 16 new theatres opened in the Boulevard des théâtres.

French Revolution
During the 1780's, the France involvement in the American Revolutionary War and the extravagant lifestyle of the royal family left the country on the brink of bankruptcy. In 1784 began the construction of the Wall of the Farmers-General around Paris, collecting toll from the imported goods in the city. During this years, Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, cousin of the King, was in debt. Residing in the Palais-Royal, he installed 60 shops under its arcades to pay his debt. Gambling dens, theatres, cafés and prostitution also emerged in the Palais and it became the nerve of the intellectual contestation of the power.

Around 1774, the Sage and silversmith François-Thomas Germain, who was also a member of the Parisian Rite of the Templar Order, received vision of his precedant lifes. Following them, he entered in the vault of Jacques de Molay and found the Codex Pater Intellectus. Understanding he was somewhat linked to De Molay, Germain tried to reform the order, by returning in the shadow and removing the French King from the throne. The Grand Master François de la Serre expelled Germain, judging his ideas as heretics. Germain allied with some members of the rite who were agree with his plan and took their quarters in the Temple of Paris. One of his followers, Charles Gabriel Sivert, inducted in their faction the Roi des Thunes, who tried to served De la Serre but was roughly ignored by the Grand Master. The two Germain's followers assassinated the Grand Master in the Palace of Versailles during the opening of the Estates-General of 1789. Becoming the new Grand Master, Germain searched to manipulate the anger of the population of Paris to suit the next part of his plan.

The 12th of July, after the dismissal of the finance minister Jacques Necker and rumors of an attack on Paris by the King's Army, the journalist Camille Desmoulins start an uprising at the Palais-Royal. Two days later, the Sans-culottes, with the help of a part of the Army, stormed the Bastille to take gunpowder. In the mob was Élise de la Serre, François' daughter, who tried to save her adoptive brother, Arno Dorian, who was wrongly imprisonned in the Bastille for the Grand Master's murder. During the attack of the fortress, Arno escaped with the Master Assassin Pierre Bellec, who was the mentor of Arno's biological father, Charles Dorian. The two men escaped from the Bastille with a Leap of Faith before the angry mob took control of the fortress and killed his governor Bernard-René de Launay.

During the month of July, the new finance minister, Joseph Foullon de Doué, hoarded foodstuffs and sold them at an exorbant rate in Paris. The Assassin Brotherhood intervened and opened his warehouses for the population. Doué's henchmen tried to move the food but were stopped by the Assassins. The 22th July, Doué was captured by an angry mob who hanged him to a lantern in Place des Grèves and later beheaded him. During this events, the Sans-Culottes organized the city as the Paris Commune with Jean Sylvain Bailly as his mayor.

Even after the National Assembly abolished the priviledges of Nobility and Church in France, many people were starving in Paris. The 5th October 1789, Théroigne de Méricourt led a march with the women of les Halles to enter in the Palace of Versailles. The Templars who followed Germain tried to make the march more violent and target Méricourt. The Assassins protected her and sabotaged the cannons used against the mob. After the crowd entered in the Palace of Versailles, the royal family returned in Paris, residing in the Palais des Tuileries. The National Assembly was installed in the Salle du Manège near the Tuileries. During the night of the 5th October, Germain made assassinated the last Templars loyal to the de la Serre in Paris. During the fight, Élise was forced to jump in the Seine to survive.

After the event of 1789, the Assembly National voted the demolition of the Bastille and used its stoned to construct the Pont de la Révolution between the Palais Bourbon and the Tuileries Gardens. Many political club were established in Paris to inform the population, as the Templar-affiliate Jacobins, who took place in the convent of Jacobins. A year after the Storming of the Bastille, the Fête de la Fédération was organized on Le Champs de Mars to reinforce the unity of the King with the National Assembly and the people, with 300, 000 persons attended the celebrations.

In 1791, the Café Théâtre fell into near-ruin. Its manager, the Assassin Charlotte Gouze chose Arno Dorian, who became an Assassin, as the new stewart of the Café. While renovating the building, Arno fought Les Actes des Apôtres, a royalist faction which targeted the café. The Assassin also bough other cafés in the city to serve as intelligences gathering for the Brotherhood. After obtaining one of them, Arno accomplished contracts on thugs and Templars who controlled boroughs of Paris. At the same time, under the suggestion of Eugène François Vidocq, Arno investigated different murders through the city to arrest the culpables.

After de la Serre's death, the Templars had taken control of Paris, organizing smuggling of precious artifacts. Sivert also racketed nobles and clergymen, offering his protection against the revolutionaries. The Assassin Council tasked Arno to assassinate Sivert in Nôtre-Dame and investigated on the murder of de la Serre. After killing the Templar, the Assassin had the identity of the other de la Serre's murder, the Roi des Thunes. Arno infiltrated the Cour des Miracles and killed him. In his memories, Arno discovered that the two murders worked for a new Grand Master. With the help of the Marquis de Sade, Arno found out that the weapon used to kill his adoptive father was created by Germain. Arno went in the silversmith's shop to interrogate him. Seeing that Arno didn't known he was a Templar, Germain manipulated Arno and told him that it was Chrétien Lafrenière who asked him to forged the weapon and that he prepared an attack. The Assassin followed this lead and destroyed the gunpowder stock of Lafrenière in the Halle aux Blés. At the night, Arno killed Lafrenière in the old Holy Innocents' Cemetery, during a reunion with Templars who were loyal to de la Serre. Arno understood his mistake after seeing that Lafrenière tried to save the Grand Master.

After the death of Lafrenière, Germain and his followers organized their plan to starve the population of Paris and overthrown the King. They also planned to kill Élise de la Serre. Arno, who eavesdropped the meeting, saved Élise from the radical Templars. The two step-siblings decided to investigate together de la Serre's death with the help of the Brotherhood. Élise revealed to Arno that Germain was a Templar and they found proof that he was the mastermind of the plot. While Arno wanted to inform the Mentor Mirabeau about that, Pierre Bellec killed the Mentor to impeach the peace between the Templars and the Assassins. After discovering that, Arno was forced to fight Bellec in the Sainte-Chapelle and finish him after wounding his mentor. With two of their members dead, the Council refused to ally with Élise and Arno was forbidden to investigate the murder of de la Serre.

In June 1791, the Royal family tried to flee Paris to Varennes to begin a counter revolution, but they were recognized in the tavern and were forced to return in the city. This act angered the population and a manifestation against the King occured in the Tuileries which were repressed by the Marquis de la Fayette. In 1792, as France entered in war against the Austrian Empire, the Parisian population was suspicious about the real intention of the King. Furthermore, the city was starving because of the actions of Marie Lévesque and Madame Flavigny, two Templars working for Germain. Théroigne de Méricourt investigated on the food hoarding and with the help of the Assassins stopped a part of before the members of the Brotherhood assassinated Flavigny. In June, the Sans-Culottes broke in the Palace of Tuileries and forced the King to wear a phrygian cap and to toast the nation with a glass of wine.

The 9 August, the Commune of Paris led by the Jacobins took the arms against the King, and the 10 August, stormed the Tuileries Palace. The King fled the palace while the Swiss Guards fought the crowd. As the King was in possession of letters from the late Mentor Mirabeau, the Council sent Arno in the Palace to destroy the documents before they fell in the wrong hands. During his searching in the palace, Arno encountered Napoleon Bonaparte, an soldier who looking for a key which can open an Isu Temple in Saint-Denis possessed by the King. The two accomplished their task before fleing the palace as Frédéric Rouille, one of Germain's follower, arrived to recover document which proved the alliance between the King and the Austrians. As the King arrived in the Salle du Manège, the Constitutionnal Assembly declared the monarchy illegal and the royal family was arrested and sent to the Temple of Paris.

With no king, the Constitutionnal Assembly became the National Convention with a strong influence of the Commune of Paris. An Austrian spy ring led by the Comte de Gambais and Vicomte de Gambais tried to prepare an invasion of Paris by the Austrian forces. The 2 September, the Minister of Justice Georges Danton delivered a speech before the Convention, calling for "more audacity" in the face of overwhelming odds against Austria. After the speech, Danton lured one of the spy in the trap but the spy tried to kill Danton. Two Assassins saved Danton and killed the two leaders of the spy ring. With a treat of an royalist uprising in Paris, political leader as Jean-Paul Marat called the population to slaughter royalist-affiliated and the prisonners in the city. The September Massacres began in the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and spread through Paris, as in the the Salpêtrière Hospital or the Château de la Tournelle. Frédéric Rouille led the attack on the Grand Châtelet, killing and decapitating the warden's brother. Arno infiltrated the prison and assassinated Rouille without the permission of the Council. Thousand of persons were killed in Paris during the massacre.

Under the Republic, many monuments in Paris had their names changed to erase the royal legacy of Frznce. The Place Royale became the Place des Vosges, the Place Louis XV became Place de la Révolution and the Plais-Royale became the Palais-Égalité. During the month of October, Marie Lévesque continued to hoard the grain entering in the city and stored it under the Luxembourg Palace to accuse the royal family to starving the population. Arno and Élise worked together to ruin her plan. During the party in the Luxembourg Palace, while Élise tried to move the grain, Arno assassinated Lévesque before her guests. The two flew the guards on the rooftops of the city with a hot-air balloon.

19th century
In the 19th century, Napoleon I embellished the city with monuments to military glory. It became the European capital of fashion, and the scene of two more revolutions in 1830 and 1848. Under, nephew of Napoleon I, and his Prefect of the Seine, , between 1852 and 1870 the center of Paris was rebuilt with wide new avenues, squares, and parks, and the city was expanded to its present limits in 1860. In the latter part of the century, in the era, millions of tourists came to see the Paris International Expositions and the new Eiffel Tower.

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.

20th century
In the 20th century, Paris suffered bombardment in World War I and German occupation from 1940 until 1944 in World War II. Between the two wars, Paris was the capital of modern art and a magnet for intellectuals, writers and artists from around the world.

Modern era
Abstergo Industries maintained a secret laboratory in Paris for the purpose of researching Precursor artifacts and genetic material until it was destroyed in October 2014 by a team of Assassins led by Gavin Banks.

In November, 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.

Appearances

 * Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy
 * Assassin's Creed: Rogue
 * Assassin's Creed: Unity
 * Assassin's Creed: Unity novel
 * Assassin's Creed: Syndicate
 * Assassin's Creed: Heresy