France

France (: Francia) is a country situated in Western Europe, which shares a border with, among others, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, and Spain.
As one of the most central and biggest powers on the European continent, France's social and political affairs have often been influenced by the Assassin Brotherhood and Templar Order since at least the Middle Ages. It was also notably the country where the Order of the Knights Templar, as a military order, was both founded and disbanded.
==History==
===Isu Era===
During the Isu Era, the First Civilization built at least two sites containing artifacts near the future location of Paris.Assassin's Creed: Unity – It Belongs in a Museum After the Great Catastrophe, the Isu were no more and their former slaves, the humans, spread across the world.Assassin's Creed: Revelations
===Classical Antiquity===
During the era of Classical Antiquity, France was known as Gaul and was populated by various Celtic tribes. Between 58 and 50 BCE, the Roman army led by the consul Julius Caesar fought a Gallic revolt led by the chieftain Vercingetorix.Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy Once defeated, the Gaul became a province of the future Roman Empire, which was secretly controlled by the Order of the Ancients.Discovery Tour: Ancient Egypt – 
By the 1st century CE, the Hidden Ones, a secret Brotherhood dedicated to protecting the free will of humanity, arrived in Gaul to fight the influence of the Ancients. They installed at least four bureaus in northern Gaul.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla - The Siege of Paris - Hidden
By 259 CE, the Liberalis Circulum, a group of Hidden Ones, established themselves in the capital of Roman Gaul, Lugdunum. This year, the Hidden One Accipiter led an Alemanni army in Gaul, fighting the Roman army. He entrusted to his cousin and Hidden One Aquilus the Ankh, a piece of Eden that could temporarily revive the dead. Aquilus returned to Lugdunum and gave the artifact to his father Lucius. The senator and Ancient Caïus Fulvus Vultur killed Lucius, taking the Piece of Eden to Rome. Aquilus avenged his father and took back the artifact to his home but was arrested with his wife Valeria by Roman guards to be executed.Assassin's Creed 2: Aquilus 
At the same time, Accipiter negotiated with the Prefect of Lugdunum to spare his city against a ransom. The Hidden One tried to save his cousin but he was executed. Accipiter saved Valeria and entrusted her with the Ankh.Assassin's Creed 3: Accipiter 
During the 3rd century, the presence of Christianity increased in . Denis, the bishop of Lutetia, found an Apple of Eden in an Isu Temple under the village of Catolacus. He used its power to convert the population to Christianity but the Roman authority arrested Denis, and after a long imprisonment, beheaded him. Someone recovered the Apple and encased it in his lantern known as the Head of Saint-Denis. He used its power to the populace, implementing false memories of Denis walking with his head in his hands to his resting place of Catolacus, before collapsing. Feeling polluted by the Apple, Denis' successor placed the lantern in the Temple.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla - Siege of Paris - Viking Expansion notes Centuries later, Denis was canonized as a saint, Catolacus became known as Saint-Denis and a Basilica was built on the Isu Temple.Assassin's Creed: Unity - Dead Kings
In 423, after the death of the emperor Honorius, the Hidden Ones in Gaul decided to leave the province to join their brethren in Cologne. They sealed the Lutetia bureau and hid its key in the bureaus of Champlieu, Gisacum and Diodurum. However, some Hidden Ones remained in Gaul, staying in the region long after the fall of the Roman Empire.
===Middle Ages===
====Kingdom of Francia====
In 481 CE, the Kingdom of Francia was established in Gaul by the Merovingian dynasty, five years after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. In 496, the King Clovis was anointed in the cathedral of Reims, establishing the tradition for all his successors. In 630, the King Dagobert I founded the Abbey of Saint-Denis, which became one of the most important of its kind in France, with its abbots serving as advisors of the monarchy and the Basilica of Saint-Denis becoming the royal Necropolis.Assassin's Creed: Unity — Dead Kings – Database: Abbey of Saint Denis By 800, the Kingdom became a part of the Carolingian Empire. Its King, Charlemagne, who was also a leader of the Order of the Ancients, was crowned emperor by the pope Leo III to twart the power of the Byzantine Empire. Decades later, when the Carolingian Empire was divided, the former Gaul became known as West Francia.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla — The Siege of Paris – Database: Francia 
During the 9th century, Francia became the target of the Viking expansion across Europe. The capital Paris sustained an invasion led by the legendary Swedish king Ragnar Lothbrok in 845, resulting in the plunder and occupation of the city, which only came to an end when the king Charles the Bald gave the invaders 7,000 lives of silver and gold.Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Blood Brothers 
By 886, a secretive group of religious zealots known as the Bellatores Dei believed that Francia had fallen into apostasy and sought to restore the state to order through Christian fanaticism. Led by Isidore Mercator, they searched to influence the troubled Emperor Charles the Fat who controlled all of the Carolingian Empire. To ensure their control, the Bellatores planned to kill Charles' wife Richardis who had great influence over him.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla — The Siege of Paris – The Queen's Gambit The Bellatores tried to excavate the Hidden Ones' bureaus in northern Francia but they stopped by the Hidden One Abbo Cernuus.
During this period, Frankish Rebels composed of former soldiers and freedom fighters were led by Pierre to fight Charles' rule.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla — The Siege of Paris – Database: Frankish Rebels They allied with the Viking Elgring Clan which had settled in Melun. The Bellator Engelwin killed their jarl Sinric in his sleep and left his corpse to be taken by animals. To avenge his brother's death, the jarl Sigfred planned a siege on Paris and sent his niece, Toka Sinricsdottir, to find other allies to assist them.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla — The Siege of Paris – Strangers Bearing Gifts Among their allies were Rollo but also the jarlskona Eivor Varinsdottir of the Raven Clan, who wanted to make a truce with Francia to not invade England.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla — The Siege of Paris – Warlord of Melun Allying with the clan and the rebels, Eivor began to hunt the Bellatores, killing Engelwin.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla — The Siege of Paris – The Rot in the Slums She also killed the Bellator Euphrasia, saving Richardis in the process who became her ally.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla — The Siege of Paris – Sister of Sorrow 
Eivor attempted a truce with both the Count of Paris Odo and King Charles but as they refused, the Vikings decided to besiege Paris. Odo defended his city with the Bellatores Ebels and Gozlin.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla — The Siege of Paris – Dark Before Dawn The Vikings stormed in Paris and Eivor killed Ebels while Gozlin was left for dead. As Sigfred and his clan began to slaughter the civilians.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla — The Siege of Paris – The Siege of Paris (memory) Eivor decided to stop the siege by making a truce with Odo. As the count refused to surrender, Eivor dueled. After being defeated, Odo accepted the truce but at this moment Charles arrived at the wall of Paris. He made peace with Sigfred, granting lordship over Rouen and Amiens and giving him an abundance of treasure. This deal enraged Odo after all the lives lost during the siege.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla — The Siege of Paris – The Count of Paris But Sigfred disappeared, leaving Toka as the leader of the Elgring clan.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla — The Siege of Paris – Skal!
By 887, Odo tasked Eivor to investigate Richardis' welfare and to assassinate Charles as he wanted the throne. In his Villa of Amiens, a mad Charles was influenced by Gozlin to kill Richardis by trial by fire, but it proved unsuccessful due to "divine intervention" with the simultaneous rain and Eivor killed Gozlin.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla — The Siege of Paris – Fire and Faith After fighting Charles, Eivor locked him in his villa, sparing his life as Richardis tasked her.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla — The Siege of Paris – Madness of King Charles Later Toka and Odo made a truce, and as Charles was deposed from the throne, Odo became the new king of Francia, breaking the influence of the Carolingian dynasty.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla — The Siege of Paris – Victory
====Rise and fall of the Templars====
In 1129, the Council of Troyes officialized the foundation of the Order of the Knights Templar, the new iteration of the Order of the Ancients. As a military order, the Templars became a powerful and wealthy faction at the time, building strongholds across Europe and the Middle East.Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Abstergo Files – File.0.02\Hst_Beginning Their headquarters, the Temple, was built in Paris in 1240, becoming a city inside the city.Assassin's Creed: Unity – Database: Temple 
During the 13th century, the French Assassins, the reformed Hidden Ones, also installed their headquarters in Paris, across the underground complex of the Sainte-Chapelle.Assassin's Creed: Unity – Rebirth By the dawn of the 14th century, the Assassins planned to eliminate the Templars once and for all. In 1305, the Mentor Guillaume de Nogaret poisoned the pope Benedict XI to place Clement V as his puppet. As a counselor of King Philip IV of France, Nogaret manipulated the pope and the king into disbanding the Templars by accusing them of heresy.Assassin's Creed: Unity – Database: Journal of Thomas de Carneillon, October 12, 1307 In 1307, Philip ordered the arrest of the Templars, and the Assassins disguised as flemish mercenaries stormed the Temple led by Thomas de Carneillon. During the attack, Grand Master Jacques de Molay tasked his his advisor to hide a Sword of Eden and his Codex in his vault before he was arrested. During his imprisonment at Chinon, De Molay hid the Heart of the sword in his cell while instructing nine of his lieutenants to drive the Order back underground.Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Abstergo Files – File.0.06\Hst_VoxInExcelso In 1314, the Grand Master was burned at the stake in Paris before Philip and Clement. In his last word, the Templar cursed them, prophetizing they would die in the year, which indeed happened.Assassin's Creed: Unity – The Tragedy of Jacques de Molay
====Hundred Years' War====
From 1337 to 1453, France became involved in the Hundred Years' War with England, the Houses of Valois and Plantagenet fighting for control over the French throne. England repeatedly led expeditions onto French soil, which took a huge toll on the economy and the nation's morale. In response, the French built the Bastille in the late 14th century to defend Paris from the English threat, playing a vital role in internal conflicts.Assassin's Creed: Unity – Database: 21. Medieval During the late part of the war, France was divided in three between the Eglish-Burgundy alliance and the House of Valois. North of France and Burgundy were both controlled respectively by the Templars John of Bedford and Philip III of Burgundy while South of France was under the ruled by the Dauphin Charles. The Templar Georges de la Trémoille was Charles' Grand Chambellan and plotted to bring peace for the Templar to control Charles.Assassin's Creed: Heresy
Charles' mother-in-law, Queen Yolande of Aragon, was the Mentor of the French Brotherhood and tasked the Assassins to find the young woman prophetized to save France to rally the army against the English. In 1429, they found her in the peasant Jeanne d'Arc who had a high rate of Isu DNA. With de Molay's Sword of Eden and Heart, she led French soldiers to victories, liberating Orléans from a siege and escorting Charles to Reims to be crowned. However, she failed to liberate Paris and in 1430, she was captured by the Templars at the siege of Compiègne. The Templars recovered the Sword of Eden and accused Jeanne of witchcraft. In 1431, as she was about to be burned in Rouen, the Assassins saved her, her follower Fleur taking her place on the stake to die with the heart. Her survival was kept a secret and she decided to don't resume her fight.
===Renaissance===
During the Renaissance, France was ruled by King Louis XII from his capital in Paris, though he was drawn away from the throne by his military conquests. During his absence, he left his foreign ministers in command, not knowing that they were working for the Borgia.Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy – Contracts
In the early 1500s, a French Army, under the command of Octavian de Valois, was employed by Cesare Borgia, the Captain General of the Papal Armies, in order to help unite Italy under the Papal banner.Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
===Age of Enlightenment===
During the Age of Enlightenment, France, in competition with Spain and England, sought to build up their Empire by capturing territories in Africa and, to a lesser extent, the West Indies.
France aided the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolutionary War: the Marquis de Lafayette served as George Washington's aide-de-camp from 1777, and the French Navy, under Admiral De Grasse, was instrumental in securing victory.Assassin's Creed III
===French Revolution===
Eventually, numerous troubles in their homeland led to the French having their own revolution in 1789,Assassin's Creed: InitiatesAssassin's Creed: Unity - The King's Correspondence and control of France ultimately fell to one Napoleon Bonaparte, a skilled military Commander in possession of an Apple of Eden. From 1804 to 1815, Napoleon ruled over France and Western Europe as an Emperor.Assassin's Creed II – Glyphs
In 1848, a period of civil unrest and loss of work led laborers to revolt against the government. In June, people joined the against the French government, especially the parents of a young Pierrette Arnaud. However, the riots were unsuccessful as Arnaud's parents, along with others, were killed and buried in unmarked graves.Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Magus Conspiracy – Chapter 2
===Orsini Affair===
On 14 January 1858, Emperor Napoleon III and his wife arrived at the and were attacked by a collection of bombers, led by Italian rebel Felice Orsini,Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Magus Conspiracy – Chapter 15 who was aided and equipped by the mysterious figure, the "Magus."Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Magus Conspiracy – Chapter 12Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Magus Conspiracy – Chapter 14Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Magus Conspiracy – Chapter 16Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Magus Conspiracy – Chapter 19 Although the Emperor and his wife survived with little injuries, hundreds of civilian casualties occurred as a consequence. Unknown to most, Assassin Simeon Price, trained by the Parisian Brotherhood,Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Magus Conspiracy – Chapter 13 and Aurora Equestrian Troupe's acrobat Pierrette Arnaud stopped another bomb from exploding at the theater. As a result, Orsini and his cohorts were executed as tensions grew between France and England, which pushed harsher government laws on its people.Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Magus Conspiracy – Chapter 18
===Belle Époque===
After the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, France enjoyed a period of peace and prosperity which would last until 1914. Dubbed as '', Paris underwent technological advances which led to increase in size, economic power as well as the improvement of life quality.Assassin's Creed: Unity – Database: 19. Belle Époque
In 1889, the construction of the Eiffel Tower was completed, with the landmark becoming the symbol of France's new engineering prowess and of the Époque itself.
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed II 
*Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood 
*Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood novel 
*Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy 
*Assassin's Creed: Revelations 
*Assassin's Creed: Revelations novel
*Assassin's Creed: Initiates 
*Assassin's Creed III 
*Assassin's Creed III: Liberation 
*Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag 
**Freedom Cry 
*Assassin's Creed: Rogue 
*Assassin's Creed: Unity novel
*Assassin's Creed: Unity
*Assassin's Creed: Heresy
*Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Blood Brothers 
*Echoes of History 
*Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – The Siege of Paris
*Assassin's Creed: Fragments – The Witches of the Moors
*Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Magus Conspiracy
*Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Resurrection Plot
*Assassin's Creed: Mirage 
*Assassin's Creed: Nexus VR 
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