Scarlet lit streets with fast cars and beautiful women. A paradise of desire
Basic Facts & History
- Capitol city of France.
- City of Lutetia is built in 52 BC, what would become the future Paris.
- St Denis Cathedral is rebuilt in 1120: birth of Gothic architecture.
- Catacombs built in 1785 as the cemetaries of France began overflowing, and the risk of disease and the aesthetic problems in the city became apparent.
- 1789 sees the French Revolution, and the storming of La Bastille. King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette are guillotined in Paris.
- Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor Napoleon I in 1804.
- Eiffel Tower built in 1889.
- D-Day and Allied victory and Fourth Republic led by de Gaulle in 1944-45
- France remains neutral in Eve of Twilight war until 2059, to aid England against North Korea.
- Paris sees little actual damage caused due to the war. Citizens of neighboring cities flock immediately to it after the blackening of the sky near the end of 2067.
- Acid rain from the first three years of the Twilight severely corrode the Eiffel Tower. When the problem is corrected by the WCT's in Europe, members of the newly founded New Millenium Syndicate fund the partial reconstruction.
- The Syndicate having slowly taken control of France's government over the last few decades, the current head, a young Adrienne, is appointed leader.
- Adrienne establishes the bureau 'The Agency', for handling all international 'intelligence' matters.Important Landmarks
- Rêve D'Écarlate: The spiralling hall that goes up the length of the Eiffel Tower. Serves as the central base of the New Millenium Syndicate, and the home of Adrienne.
- Cathédrale Notre-Dame:The city's cathedral ranks as one of the greatest achievements of Gothic architecture. Sublime architectural achievement, created simply because the French like to mess with things.
- Avenue Des Champs-Elysees: Popular promenade, encroaching fast-food joints, car showrooms and cinemas.
- Cimetiere du Père Lachaise: Necropolis attracting more visitors than any other site like it in the world. Houses such luminaries as Chopin, Pissarro, Sarah Bernhardt, and Jim Morrison.
- Church of the Invalides: Large establisment built to house disabled veterans, now a memorial dedicated to the lives lost during the Eve of Twilight.