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La Touche

Aloys La Touche (1748 - 4 June 1793) was a tax collector during the reign of King Louis XVI of France. Reports indicate that he was dismissed from his post amidst charges of bribery and, unable to find further employment, he sank into obscurity. A Versailles crime boss referred to as "La Touche", who was killed during a riot at a mass execution, may or may not have been the same man.

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Aloys La Touche

Aloys La Touche was originally a brutal tax collector of the Kingdom of France under King Louis XVI of France. He was fired when 10,000 livres went missing from the king's treasury, and he was accused of stealing them after his reports were erratic. Now without a job, he went into a life of poverty and decided to join the Cour des Miracles society of Le Roi des Thunes in the sewers of Paris. Le Roi des Thunes decided that La Touche could be useful because he was a former tax collector, and he became a member of the Cour des Miracles and the Templar Order.

In 1791, he had his first encounter with the Assassin Order recruit Arno Dorian when he was interrogated on the location of his boss, Le Roi des Thunes. La Touche was chained to a wall, and he pleaded for help, and he was released after Dorian left to kill Le Roi. La Touche warned Le Roi, but rather than fleeing, Le Roi remained in his throne in the sewers and was assassinated by Arno. 

La Touche death

La Touche's death

On 4 June 1793, Arno set out to assassinate Templar Grand Master Francois-Thomas Germain, but wanted to finish off some old business. La Touche was the last Templar on his list besides Germain, so Arno tracked him down to a mass execution in Versailles. Arno killed a guard and stole his keys, entering the prisoner cage and pretending to be the next one in line for the guillotine. He walked up to the platform and drew his hidden blades from his wrists, stabbing La Touche in the chest and killing him, shortly after La Touche recognized him as someone that he knew. In La Touche's memories, Arno saw him being introducied to Maximilien Robespierre, and Robespierre became his next target.

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