Paris Timeline

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Even through's Louis XIV's death, the short regency, and the rule of the Bon Vivant and Iron-Willed (!!!) Louis XV, the Toreador will hold their power, as the Kindred of France mimick the indolence of their mortal noble pawns.

But some Kindred are still waiting: The Bloodline of Labienus and their Brujah allies work slowly by inducing the ideas that will feed the Revolution fire...

The rule of Louis XVI will prove to be Beatrix's undoing...

• 1701: François Villon Embraces his lover, Elle.

• 1709: Exceptionnaly Cold Winter Temperature goes as low as -40 degrees C (that is -40 degrees F, or 233.15K!). The Seine freezes and there will be 24000 to 30000 deaths in the month of January

• 1716: Foundation, by Law, of the first private Bank, the Banque générale de dépot, de change et d'escompte.

• 1738: End of the War of succession of Poland, won by Russia.

  Alexis arrives from Russia (where he helped the French Toreador while in the war), fleeing the Russian Kindred who wants him dead.

  Creation, the 24th June, of the masonic Grande Loge de France.

• 1742: Appearance of a very contagious desease which grippe (rusts) its victim. The disease will keep the French name: Grippe (Influenza).

• 1743: A London Anarch breaks the Masquerade. The Camarilla succeed in covering it, destroys the Anarch, and then officially aknowledges the position of Prince.

• 1745: Madame de Pompadour is used by Elle to ensure the control of Louis XV by the clan Toreador. The control will end at the death of the lady. She will have helped, through, to the betterment of the arts in France.

• 1748: Treaty of Aix la Chapelle, and end of the War of Succession of Austria.

• 1756: The reversing of Alliances: Great Britain becomes the enemy, and Austria an ally. Inspired by Elle. It will prove to be a mistake in a mortal viewpoint, but it will calm down the Clan Tremere of Paris, as they will surrender a mysterious magickal artifact to Beatrix.

  The children of the Duc of Orléans are vaccined to protect them against the Variole (Variola).

• 1760: Foundation of the Institution for the deaf and the hard-of-hearing, by L'abbé de l'Epée.

• 1763: End of the War of Seven Years.

  France loses its possessions in India and Canada, after a costly war against England (Mithras will send back the unopened letter written to him by the now deceased Alexandre... Beatrix will be furious).

  The Place of Louis the 15th is opened. It will become the Place of the Revolution, and after, the Place of the Concorde.

• 1770: Wedding of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette of Austria.

  Alliance between the french Toreador and the Austrian Tremere against the Ventrue of Prussia and Great Britain.

• 1771: The Curacy of the Inquisition of Toulouze is is dissolved

• 1775: Creation of the masonic Grand Orient de France.

• 1783: 19th March: Creation of the Ecole des Mines of Paris.

  8th July: Royal Edict decides all new streets must be at least 30 feet (10 meters) broad.

  23th August: The balloon Le Globe, inflated with heated air, rises into the air. It will land at Gonnesse where the local priest will exorcise it before having it destroyed by his parish. There was no one in it.

  21th November: The first Montgolfière with live people in it will rise in the air.

• 1788: The Science Academy edits the first known meteorological map.

• 1789: The French Revolution. Provoked by the negligence of the people's power, by the more and more outrageous privileges of the ruling class (the Nobles, and the Clergy), and by the growing blindness of Beatrix and her Grand Cour to the schemes of Labienus and the Brujah Clan, the people of Paris rebels...

  The takeover of the Bastille fortress (14 July 1789) is the signal of the uprising.

  At first, Beatrix and Villon still believe in the reversal of the revolution, thanks to their alliance with the Ventrue and Tremere Clans of Europe to block the rise in power of the Brujah (they fear a new Carthage).

  First Déclaration des Droits de l'Homme (Declaration of the Rights of the Human Being, or, seen by some as Declaration of the Rights of Man: Olympe de Gouges will write her own text: Declaration of the Rights of the Woman. Yes, she's one of the first active feminists!)

  The Sabbat and the Anarchs prepare for war...

• 1791: The Ste Geneviève church becomes the Panthéon.

  The Anarchs, mainly constitued by Brujah, takes the power as Louis XVI treason is revealed when he tries to flee and is discovered the 20 November.

  Most of the Toreador flee, While Villon and Beatrix stay in France.

  Louis XVI is now King of the French people, led by the French Assembly, and his only power is the right of veto. The 20 April, inspired by Beatrix, he will instigate, a war against his own nephew, François II, Emperor of Prussia, hoping to lose and to be freed by him from the french Assembly. But the defeats will raise the anger of the people against him.

  Louis XVI is jailed the 10 august, and Beatrix flees Paris. But her carelessness and nervousity makes her do a mistake in her flight which cost her her unlife, as the Anarchs and the Brujah (and the Sabbat)follow her. Villon still hides.

• 1792: 25th April: Nicolas Pelletier, a bandit, is Guillotined (executed by the Guillotine).

  A young deputy, named Saint Just (or St Just), clean the corruption from France's institutions and is one of the causes behind the first victories of France against the coalition.

  22 September, the Republic is proclaimed. Villon flees from France.

• 1793: 21 January: Execution of Louis XVI.

  The Brujah and Anarchs try to put up a government, but soon, the some of the softer, non-Brujah Anarchs and are disgusted by the Brujah's intolerance. Their mortal pawns are jailed and most of them must flee the Terror and die trying.

  June 1993: The comity of Salut Public (Public Salvation?) takes the power, with as its leaders Robespierre, and St Just. Witrh the Terror, the mortal pawns of every influence are executed, and among them a lot of people who shouldn't have. The coalition of European countries invading France to put back the monarchy (and unknowingly, put back a Camarilla Prince) fails.

  5th October: The Republican Calendar becomes official.

  16th October, Marie-Antoinnette, wife of Louis XVI and Tremere's agent in France, is executed.

  8th November: The Louvre becomes a Museum.

  23th November: Every church in Paris is closed.

• 1794: 11th June: The Terror is proclaimed. From the 11th June to the 27th July, the Revolutionnary Tribunal will decide 1376 Death Sentences.

  The Terror gets out of control (because of Sabbat, Giovanni and Setite infiltration), and no one, no matter his Clan (yes, even Sabbat, or Setite!) is secure.

  26 June, victory of Fleurus.

  July, fall of Robespierre and end of the Terror.

  26 July, at night, St Just is Embraced by Robin Leeland, Anarch of the Clan Brujah. He will keep a low profile, cleaning the supernatural population of Paris (Sabbat, Setites, etc.) and siding with the beautiful and passionate Madame Guil.

  A softer Convention takes the power, controlled by various Neonates from various Clans.

• 1795: 20th January: Opening of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure.

  Up to October, the Convention tries to make reactionary reforms.

  October, the Directoire takes the control. The Setite will easily corrupt it, and it will remain so until 1799.

  Villon secretly get back, with Alexis and Ivan. They search for a sutable pawn, and finds in Bonaparte a very astute one, even if he is very strong willed.

• 1796: 4th December: Religion cults are once more authorized.

• 1797: Villon see the signature of the Clan Giovanni in some of the bloodier moments of the Terror, and in the corruption of the Directoire. To remove their new hold in french (and parisian) trade and government, he make Bonaparte destroy the Republic of Venise.

  Clan Giovanni remove their own from Paris, and Bonaparte returns in France in exchange.

  22 October: Garnerin makes the fist parachute jump (700 meters) from a Montgolfière.

• 1798: The Setites intrigue to make the Directoire send Bonaparte in Egypt, where they hope he will be easily corrupted. Villon is no fool, and send half his Kindred staff (and with them Alexis) to follow his somewhat rebellious pawn.

• 1799: The Egypt expedition by Bonaparte is a failure as the french navy is destroyed in Aboukir. but in a cultural way, it's a success, as the Toreador come back full with relics and information. Alexis is thought destroyed. Bonaparte gets back in France in October.

  9-10 november 1799, he takes the power from the Directoire, and becomes the first Consul.