15 novembre 2014
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David Andress, « The existential horror of reducing the Great Revolution to a video game... », The French Revolution Network, ID : 10.58079/toyb
According to the French leftist standard-bearer Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the act of turning the events of the 1790s into the backdrop for Assassins Creed Unity, the latest instalment in a successful first-person adventure game series, is "a dirty business of instilling more self-disgust and declinism in the French," adding that it risks leaving the nation with nothing but religion and skin-colour to unite them - with evidently reactionary implications. While one might be tempted to remark that hi...