The Assassin Cell of Isabelle Allard, more commonly known as the Women’s Liberation Front (WLF), was a prominent European Cell of Assassins headquartered in Paris, France that was led by Master Assassins Isabelle Allard, who served as Mentor from 1954 to 1984, and Vivian Cadieux-Foden from 1984 to 1986 in England. The Cell was not in favor of the new, mysterious Mentor and operated from 1987 to 2000 by Margaux Allard on their own accord, where they disbanded and went their separate ways after the Great Purge. Over the span of their existence, they were known for fighting for the rights of women in France and Europe and speaking out against the horrors of fascism across Europe.
The Women’s Liberation Front was one of the two most prominent Assassin Cells in Europe, the other being the Delta Squadron out of Germany.
Origins and Early Years (Late 1950s)[]
Cell founder Isabelle Allard, September 1951.
In 1954, Olivier R. Abadie, the mentor of the Parisian Brotherhood of Assassins who led them through World War 2, passed away at age 85 after a battle with a complicated illness. Due to his Assassin children being killed in the line of battle during the war, in his will he stated that Isabelle Allard had proven herself enough as a Master Assassin to become the next Mentor, much like her mother before her. Isabelle at first was reluctant to accept the position, but eventually accepted the position of Mentor. Isabelle’s first act as Mentor was to appoint her friend Vivian Cadieux-Foden as her second in command.
Removal of Conservative Assassins[]
Shortly after becoming Mentor, Isabelle was faced with growing criticism from conservative Assassins, who stated that they did not want to be led by a woman and that Isabelle’s husband Xavier should be in charge. Some Assassins even said that it was a mistake by Abadie to appoint Isabelle as Mentor, saying that they did not want to be led by a dirty Dorian and her Jewish friend. Appalled by their comments, Isabelle issued a decree stating that she had heard everything from them and gave them an ultimatum: Leave the Brotherhood or adapt to change. After the decree, all of the conservative Assassins left the Brotherhood, leaving only Isabelle, Vivian, and Xavier. From there, Isabelle and Vivian began the recruitment process and outline what they would fight for, with women’s rights, humanitarianism, and anti-fascism being high on their list of topics to fight for.
Recruitment of New Assassins[]
In June of 1955, after a lengthy discussion about politics and life in general, Isabelle successfully recruited Irina McCall, the daughter of her mother’s advisor Isanne McCall, into a bookkeeper role within her new cell. She would eventually partake in fieldwork in 1963, on top of her duties as a bookkeeper and an archivist.
In July of 1955, Vivian traveled to Milan in an attempt to recruit Franco-Italian Master Assassin Diane Laurent, whom Vivian admired for the role she played in the downfall of Benito Mussolini. Offered the role of a tech specialist from Vivian, Diane instantly accepted and traveled to Paris with Vivian, therefore completing the lineup of Assassins, which would remain intact until 1961, when Xavier left the Brotherhood after divorcing Isabelle. Edouard Docieux, Isabelle’s future husband, took his place in 1963 after his marriage to Isabelle.
Vivian Cadieux-Foden was named Isabelle's second-in-command in September 1954.
From 1955 to 1959, Isabelle’s cell, with funds provided through the careers of all four women, managed to restore the Cafe Theatre and the Assassin Headquarters underneath. Isabelle and Vivian would provide interviews during the course of the renovations.
Acts of Humanitarianism[]
Isabelle and her cell were all also known for lending food, water, and various resources to various villages in African countries such as the Congo, Sudan, and Zimbabwe in 1959. They were honored by the United Nations for their efforts in combatting poverty across the continent of Africa.
1960s[]
Diplomacy[]
Diane Laurent was recruited by Vivian Cadiuex-Foden in July of 1955, and leave in December 1964, defecting to the Templars in 1965.
Isabelle’s cell rose to prominence in the 1960s, where they were known for their diplomatic prowess, with Isabelle and Vivian going on diplomatic visits on behalf of France to countries such as Cuba, China, and Canada, meeting with political figures such as Fidel and Raul Castro, Che Guevara, Mao Zedong, and John Diefenbaker along their travels. Isabelle herself would even travel back to Saskatchewan to give a speech at their legislative building on a universal healthcare system for people in the province.
They would also travel to England, West Germany, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and the Netherlands during the Cold War to forge key alliances with the Assassin Brotherhoods in those countries.
Isabelle and Vivian would travel to West Berlin at the behest of Elizabeth Baudin and Lydia Frye in an attempt to quell the rising tension between the United States and the Soviet Union at Checkpoint Charlie in 1961.
Isabelle's Hunt for the Gauntlet[]
In 1961, Isabelle would continue her mother’s research on the Isu by researching the Gauntlet of Eden, the mysterious Piece of Eden that tore the Dorian and Williams family apart. This led her to travel to the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, where she succeeded in finding the Gauntlet in a small church atop a hill in Lebret. Upon touching it, it triggered a vision of Isabelle’s mother sparring with her brother Louis. After the vision, she was ambushed by Abstergo agents. Isabelle fended them off, despite being wounded by them. Before she left, she forged an alliance with John Ell and the Saskatchewan Branch of the Canadian Assassins. Isabelle also instructed him to keep watch over the vault, a promise he would keep until his death in 2002.
Unbeknownst to Isabelle, she had violated a spoken word truce between the Dorian and Williams families. After a tense and heated exchange between Isabelle and legendary Master Assassin Quin Williams, Isabelle agreed to draft up an agreement between the two families which ceded the Vault to the Williams family. The agreement was signed in September of 1961, with many members of both families in attendance. The Lebret Agreement is still honored by both families to this day.
Operation Rabbit's Foot[]
- "Me? I'm going to fulfill my duty as a mother and watch over our children while I monitor the mission from afar. That's what I'm going to do."
- ―Isabelle's reply to Xavier when he asked what she will be doing when he is away, June 6th, 1961.
In the early afternoon of June 5th, 1961, Isabelle approached Irina’s desk in the archives to ask her about the Isu Script translation to find her not at her desk. Curious about her whereabouts, Isabelle asked both her husband Xavier and fellow Assassin Diane Laurent if they had seen her, and they both told her the same thing: they only saw her go upstairs to Cafe Theatre for her morning coffee.
Curious, Isabelle went upstairs to the cafe to see a disaster. Isabelle asked if anyone had seen Irina, and one man informed her that a company from Italy named Abstergo with their own police arrested Irina. Thanking the man for his courtesy, Isabelle made her way back down to the hideout, poured herself a cup of coffee, and called Diana and Xavier into her office, where they began to draft up a rough plan of their new operation.
All three Assassins knew that a standard infiltration would be rather unwise, as the staff would immediately recognize and arrest them. Diane suggested that they use a disguise of sorts to infiltrate the facility, suggesting they pose as scientists eager to work on the next project. Isabelle agreed and then suggested that Xavier, due to his connections as a pilot, could charter a vehicle to get them to a private plane so that he could fly the three of them back to Paris. Diane and Xavier agreed to the plan and began to get themselves ready.
Isabelle would dub the mission ‘Operation Rabbit’s Foot’, due to her belief that both Xavier and Diane needed all the luck in the world to get Irina out of the Abstergo facility. She would continue to monitor the mission from her home in Le Marais while spending time with Alexandre and Margaux, helping them with activities such as their homework. Two weeks later, the three Assassins returned to Isabelle’s home, with Irina looking a little worse for wear. Isabelle brought Irina into her office, where the younger Assassin informed her Mentor that they ran several studies on her body to see if they could ‘harness her inner spirit’, believing her to be a Sage. When that failed, they attempted to implant her with a chip that would trigger her to kill an Assassin Mentor on sight, but Diane and Xavier rescued her before they could try. Irina would thank her fellow Assassins for rescuing her, as well as asking Isabelle to send out a telegram to all Brotherhoods warning of Abstergo’s treachery. Isabelle agreed to do so, as well as write a letter to President de Gaulle to look into her capture being considered a violation of her human rights.
Isabelle also gave Irina permission to take a sabbatical for as long as she needed to recuperate.
The mission itself earned Isabelle and the French Brotherhood much praise, with many European Brotherhoods stating that they went above and beyond to bring one of their fellow comrades back from Abstergo. Isabelle herself said that. 'Looking back at my first operation I led, I was scared as all hell that it would fail, that the blood would be on my hands. But once I received word that it succeeded, I heaved a sigh of relief and knew that my military experience paid off.’
Irina McCall joined the cell in June 1955 as a bookkeeper and entered the field in 1963.
Irina would eventually join the field, earning her Hidden Blade in 1963, exacting revenge on the man who tortured her, Marcelo Coraldi, assassinating him in London. She also succeed in translating the Isu Language script in 1965 with help from the Italian Brotherhood.
The mission is where Diane would feel more sympathetic to the Templar cause, joining them in 1965.
Vivian Speaks at the United Nations[]
In 1962, Vivian would speak at the United Nations in New York City about the Cuban Missile Crisis, stating that 'If a solution for peace isn't found between the two countries and war is the outcome, neither country will be the victim. The world will be.'
Activities in the United States and Isabelle's Arrest[]
- "It's sad to see such a prosperous country being torn apart over the wish of every person wanting to live in harmony and solidarity with one another."
- ―Isabelle to American Mentor William Samuelson as they witnessed a Civil Rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama, April, 1963.
In March of 1963, Isabelle and her family briefly moved to St. Louis, Missouri to help American Mentor William Samuelson establish an Assassin presence in the Civil Rights movement. Before she left, Isabelle left Vivian in charge of her cell in France, along with Vivian were fellow cell members, Irina McCall and Diane Laurent. William would take Isabelle on a tour of cities where there were protests happening, sometimes igniting the protests themselves. Isabelle herself would evade arrest four times over her time in the United States. The fifth time she was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama for plotting and participating in a riot and spent a week in jail, only being released after Samuelson posted $5,000 for Isabelle's bail. Isabelle spent her 43rd birthday in jail. She was later cleared of all charges. Isabelle smiled sarcastically in her mugshot, which would later gain infamy in the United States. Isabelle would later state that her mugshot was a protest of the United States justice system and that it shouldn't be a crime for people to protest. The smirk earned her criticism from Elizabeth, who stated that Isabelle was 'brave but foolish', while it earned her praise from Lydia, who was 'proud that Isabelle was taking a stand against corruption'. Even Vivian said that Isabelle's smirk was 'the best shithousery she had ever seen.'
Isabelle, Edouard, and her children, along with William and his family took part in the March on Washington DC on August 28th, 1963, and witnessed Martin Luther King Jr's famous 'I Have a Dream' speech. A week later, Isabelle would make a visit to Detroit, Michigan to visit with Rosa Parks, who was commended by Isabelle for her bravery and standing up for what she believed was right.
Shortly after this, Isabelle and Edouard would assist the Canadian Brotherhood in establishing bureaus in the Canadian cities and towns of Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, and Gimli.
Protest of 1964[]
- "My mother told me to never bare my chest to anyone who is not my partner. Today is not the case. It's 1964. Things have to change."
- ―Isabelle the day before the protest , May 1964.
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Isabelle and her cell were known for their fierce advocacy for women’s rights in France. She was appalled with how men were still controlling women in many aspects of life, from their family lives to what was done with their bodies, with France’s mayor doing nothing. Disgusted by this, Isabelle sat down with her cell in April of 1964 and began to draw up plans of a protest outside of Hotel de Ville. They knew what they were going to protest about, but weren’t sure how they were going about it. They knew that they would have to get the mayor and the President's attention. Vivian suggested that they bare their chests and paint a slogan on their stomachs. Isabelle agreed with the idea, and a couple of days later the four women arrived at the Hotel de Ville, with a large group of women behind them. They unfurled a banner that said ‘A woman’s body is not yours to control’ before Isabelle and Vivian unbuttoned their shirts and revealed their breasts, with the words painted on Isabelle's chest. Diane and Irina led chants of protest while Isabelle and Vivian stood looking upwards to the sky. Irina later peeled off her shirt to reveal her breasts as well, much to Vivian and Isabelle's shock. The protest garnered the attention of the police, who stood in front of the crowd. Two of the policemen intentionally bumped into Isabelle and Vivian, which resulted in Isabelle, Vivian, and Irina being thrown to the ground, forcibly arrested, and carried away, loading them into police cars. Martina was arrested at a later point in the day. While she was being profiled, Isabelle stated that some of the policemen inappropriately grabbed her breasts in an attempt to get a rise out of her while washing the paint off of her. Diane served a 5-month sentence and Isabelle, Irina, and Vivian served eight months under house arrest due to additional charges. Isabelle would serve it at her cabin on Lac du Bougart. Vivian served hers in Manchester while Irina returned to Leeds to serve hers. All four women later received pardons from the president. After serving her five-month term, Martina assaulted Isabelle, Vivian, and Irina, leaving them bloodied and with facial injuries.
The famed mugshots of the three women after they were booked for their actions in the protest.
The famous mugshot photo of Isabelle, Vivian and Irina was taken of them at the police station, chests still bare with smeared paint and covered in dirt, carelessly holding their placards. Vivian would later say that the policemen took the picture of them in order to embarrass them, but later said it really empowered them. Isabelle would later have a talk with the mayor and President, who would later consider more reforms for women in France. Later on, a photo was taken of the three women shortly after their sentences were served, and the banner from the protest covered their bare chests. The protest would garner some praise and criticism. Feminists in Paris praised them for their will to fight for what they believed in, whereas many conservatives viewed Isabelle's protest as 'disgusting and indecent.' Their protest and photo earned them praise from both Lydia and Elizabeth, with Lydia calling her former pupil and her cell 'champions of women's rights', whereas Elizabeth was proud that 'Isabelle and her cell will stop at nothing to get women more rights to what they can do with their bodies.'
In 1965, all three women bared their chests at a beach at Plage de Grottes on Ile de Levant to celebrate the success of their protest.
Isabelle’s protest played a role in the establishment of the Neuwirth Act of 1967, which authorized contraception, and the Veil Act in 1975, which legalized abortion.
A year after the protest, Isabelle filed a lawsuit against the policemen who sexually assaulted her, and ultimately won the case with Vivian as her lawyer. The policemen lost their jobs as a result.
Breach of the Dorian Family Crypt[]
On December 19th, 1966 Isabelle and Vivian were informed by Irina McCall that the Dorian Family Crypt had been breached and that they were looking to procure a sample of Alana Rose Dorian's DNA. Isabelle and Vivian rushed over to Pere Lachaise and entered the crypt, which began a long skirmish between the agents from Abstergo and Assassins began. Vivian fought hand and hand with an agent, with Vivian getting in some offense before she was thrown through a glass table and into stone pillars, which hurt her lower black and left her bleeding profusely from a cut on her forehead, as well as her right fibula and tibia breaking. Isabelle was separated from Vivian by a single agent, with whom Isabelle was evenly matched until the agent got the upper hand on Isabelle, slamming her into a pillar. Once Isabelle was incapacitated, the agents handcuffed Vivian and threatened to kill her if Isabelle didn't let them through. Isabelle let them pass, only to ambush them from behind. Isabelle was knocked back when a fist to her forehead connected, knocking her back into a pillar that herniated two discs in Isabelle's neck. Isabelle slumped to the ground grabbing her neck. Irina and Edouard immediately called EMTs who stabilized Isabelle and Vivian and took them to the hospital, where doctors performed emergency surgery to fuse her C4 and C5 discs together. Isabelle and Vivian would later dedicate their time to bringing the crypt back to its former glory after the breach of the crypt. Isabelle's neck injury would force her into more of a teacher role within the Brotherhood, and would rarely partake in fieldwork afterward.
Assisting the Escape of East German Families[]
Sickened with how the Soviets built the Berlin Wall to prevent their citizens from crossing into West Berlin, which disgusted both Vivian and Isabelle, with Vivian stating that it ‘hampered on the human rights of the people of Berlin’, Both women moved their families into a small house belonging to West German Mentor Elizabeth Baudin and her husband Pierce Bythesea a few kilometers away from the wall in West Berlin. Under the guise of their middle names Camille and Miranda, Vivian and Isabelle were known for helping several families cross into West Berlin between August 1967 and September 1969 by way of extremely deep tunnels dug under the basement of an East German bakery. Vivian asked the original digger of the tunnel to use it, with him telling her that there are countless families already waiting to cross. Navigating their way back and forth between West and East Berlin, Vivian and Isabelle guided several families through the tunnel, avoiding the eyes of the Stasi, the secret East German Police, who were actively looking for both women because they were wanted criminals in East Berlin due to their actions. Vivian and Isabelle were almost apprehended by the Stasi, but the two women managed to fend them off with help from Elizabeth.
During this altercation, which was directly caused by Isabelle's uncharacteristic inaction, a Stasi officer shot Vivian in the right shoulder, effectively making Vivian’s right arm useless, the force knocking her back into a lining of protective barbed wire, cutting into her flesh. Isabelle would cut her out of the barbed wire. Despite the setback and with blood on her right arm and shirt, Vivian evaded them the rest of the way and successfully got the family to safety on the other side, where her husband Jon and Elizabeth helped them relocate, an act they would do with each family. Elizabeth would remove the bullet from Vivian's shoulder and bandage up her wound. Vivian would recover from her injury over a month and a half, with help from Elizabeth tending to her injury and Isabelle taking over the safe passage of families under the Wall. Vivian would show her Mentor a new tunnel to use after lecturing her about what happened down in the first tunnel. After recovering from her injury for a month and a half, Vivian would rejoin Isabelle and would continue to do this for several families, despite the constant threat of the Stasi above. From each family they refused payment. Instead of payment, she told each family that the best way of repaying her was to go to Elizabeth Baudin’s residence and she will help them in finding someplace safe to live.
Vivian and Isabelle were responsible for the escape of 60 East Berlin families. Isabelle helped her friend liberate families but wanted no credit for doing so. Once Vivian was finished in Berlin, she, along with Jon, her daughter Valerie, Elizabeth, Pierce, Isabelle, and their families left West Berlin. In 1970, two years after Vivian and Isabelle rescued their last family, in her honor, she had a portrait spray-painted on the west side of the wall, which is inscribed with ‘Vivian Camille, die Befreierin der Familien’ which translates to ‘Vivian Camille, the Liberator of Families’, and is one of the few remaining pieces of the Berlin Wall standing. It was later disassembled and is now on display outside her birth home in Amsterdam. Isabelle would commend Vivian for her successes in liberating the defecting families. Vivian would later recall her time helping the families as the ‘most harrowing, yet most rewarding time of her life.’
Diane's Departure[]
The events leading to Diane started in 1961, where Diane began to question Isabelle’s leadership, insisting that Isabelle take more of a revolutionary approach to the fight for women’s rights, to which Isabelle replied that she agreed with Diane and that she would try to implement the reforms, but it would take time for them to come into effect. Two years later Isabelle was approached by Diane again questioning Isabelle about what she had done for the fight for women’s rights, and suggested a protest to garner attention.
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Master Templar Martina Laurent extracting blood from Isabelle's jugular, May 1968.
A year later, the famed Protest of 1964 took place, with Isabelle and Vivian bore their breasts while Irina and Diane led in chants of protest. All four women were arrested and sentenced to eight and five month sentences respectively. After her sentence was up, Diane traveled to Isabelle’s cabin and without hesitation assaulted Isabelle in a trance she had no recollection of. After sustaining a minor concussion and a cut on her forehead, Isabelle managed to knock Diane out with a left hook and told her to leave her cabin. Upon her return to Paris, Isabelle and Diane had a talk where Diane expressed her desire to return to Italy and had no intention to assault Isabelle. Isabelle understood, but informed Diane that she had to get a mental health exam before she could leave. Diane agreed. On the way out, Isabelle informed Diane that the assault at her cabin was the final straw between the two women.
The two women would barely speak to each other upon Diane’s return to Italy. During her return, she defected to the Templars and sought to unlock the true secrets of Isabelle's genome, even going as far as plotting an assassination on Isabelle's life in 1965, and eventually succeeded in obtaining two vials of Isabelle's blood after incapacitating her during a back alley fight in Berlin in May of 1968. This led to Martina's mission, dubbed Operation Blind Scorpion, where she desired to study the genomes of Alana Rose Dorian, Isabelle Allard, and Templar Xavier Baudin, and create super soldier clones of the three studies. The mission succeeded in 2020, two years before Martina's death.
1970s[]
Isabelle’s cell was still fairly active with diplomacy in the early 70s. In March 1970, Isabelle and Vivian traveled to the Philippines to visit a descendant of Filipino revolutionary Esperanza Guinto, who was the Mentor of the Filipino Brotherhood of Assassins, in their bureau hidden underneath a waterfall in the Sierra Madre mountain range in the Bulacan province. During the visit, Isabelle and Vivian forged an alliance with the Filipino Assassins and promised to lend them aid and supplies over the course of the Vietnam War and afterward.
In January 1971, Isabelle and Vivian traveled back to Canada to meet up with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. During their conversation, Vivian criticized Trudeau for how he handled the October Crisis involving the FLQ and how unnecessary it was to invoke the War Measures Act. Isabelle agreed with her friend, stating that it was not a very good idea to suspend civil liberties in the country and give the police the freedom to arrest anyone without a warrant. Trudeau informed the two women that it was a necessity to do so because if he didn’t, the FLQ would have run rampant across Quebec and the province would no longer be a part of Canada if he didn’t. Vivian was so annoyed with Trudeau that she just up and left the room. Isabelle apologized to Trudeau before parting ways. Vivian later said that Pierre Trudeau was ‘the most egotistical man she had ever met.’
After their meeting with Pierre Trudeau, Isabelle met with Canadian Assassin Mentor Hannah Fleury in Toronto to discuss the Assassin's involvement in actively ending the removal of indigenous children from their families and forcing adoption into white families, which would be later called the Sixties Scoop.
Car Crash of 1973[]
On August 9th of 1973, Irina and her husband Sebastian were driving back to their Paris home, when they were suddenly t-boned at an intersection by an unknown assailant, ramming their vehicle into a nearby building. Irina broke her right leg and arm in three separate places and cracked three ribs. Sebastian suffered a broken left arm and hip. Irina and Sebastian were immediately taken away to the hospital to receive emergency surgery. She would recover over the span of five weeks. While she was recovering in the hospital, Isabelle and Vivian paid her a visit to inform her that she was run off the road by an employee of Abstergo Industries and that there was malicious intent behind the attack for what she did to Marcelo Coraldi ten years earlier. Isabelle also informed Irina that the assailant was in police custody and that she and Vivian will keep up the archives and finances in her absence. After her five-week recovery, Irina returned to her duties, albeit with a hobble in her right leg whenever she walked.
The accident would force Irina to retire from fieldwork and return to her work as an archivist and bookkeeper.
Visiting Isu Sites[]
From 1973 to 1975, Isabelle and Vivian would travel across Europe, documenting the architecture of Isu sites across France, England, Scotland, Norway, and Ireland, searching for evidence of Isu corresponding to various mythologies. They were a little successful, discovering several Isu language scripts written by notable Isu such as Morrigan and Lug the Polymath, which was later translated by Irina back in Paris.
Later Activities[]
Isabelle in the late 1970s would continue to serve in her role as Mentor, training her daughter Margaux in the ways of the Assassins behind the scenes, and continue her career as a registered nurse and a motivational speaker. In 1976, Isabelle set up the Isabelle Allard Foundation, a charity with a focus on helping people who are struggling with their mental health.
Vivian would continue on in the field, revitalizing her role as a Nazi Hunter and assisting famed hunter Simon Wisenthal hunt for Josef Mengele, to which they were unsuccessful.
1980s[]
In 1981, Isabelle’s cell was bolstered by the addition of two more Master Assassins, Isabelle’s daughter Margaux and Vivian’s daughter Valerie, who carried on and maintained the diplomatic ties with the various Brotherhoods that Isabelle and Vivian created over the years. In 1983, several members of the cell attended the funeral of Lydia Frye, where Isabelle and Vivian both delivered eulogies.
Isabelle also held talks with U.S President Ronald Reagan in 1983 as well, where the two of them got into a heated argument over a couple of Reagan’s speeches, which led to Isabelle being escorted out by Secret Service agents.
Isabelle would retire from her post as Mentor and passed the mantle of Mentor to Vivian, who had chosen to return to her home in Manchester to pursue a career in politics. Both women would retire from the Order in 1986, out of protest due to the appointment of a new, mysterious Mentor in Dubai. The act of defiance from Isabelle and Vivian caused the cell to fall out of favor with the new Mentor, which led them to operate independently from him. The last act Vivian would perform as Mentor was to give aid and assist the survivors from Pripyat following the Chernobyl Disaster, relocating several survivors to empty homes in Paris and Manchester respectively, an act that would earn Vivian some criticism from Margaret Thatcher. Margaux was appointed by Vivian to lead the cell in 1987 upon her retirement, a post she would keep until 2000.
Margaux’s first major act as Mentor was to lend aid and support to families affected by the Hillsborough Disaster in 1989, working closely with Vivian and Anne Williams to find out the truth about what happened. Margaux and Vivian played a pivotal role in getting The Sun banned from Anfield and Goodison Park in Liverpool.
1990s[]
In 1990, Irina O’Reilly retired from her duties, and with the help of the cell, transformed the Assassin Headquarters into a museum explaining the history of the building over the course of five years, completing it in 1995. Irina would also be the one to give tours until 1999.
In March of 1995, Isabelle’s granddaughter Irene would join the cell. That same month, Margaux would cement an alliance with the German Assassin cell Delta Squadron, despite the cells helping each other from time to time over the years, a formal alliance was never made until then. In the mid 1990's, the WLF formed an alliance with the Japanese cell Hidden Tigers, led by Japanese Assassin Chinami Naito.
Great Purge[]
In December of 2000, the Mentor was struck down by Templar agent Daniel Cross. The assassination of the Mentor sent shockwaves through the Brotherhood, as Abstergo now knew the location of various Assassin cells across the world, and began to send in squads to kill them. Hearing of this, Margaux quickly hid her mother and stepfather in their acreage in Versailles and recover all the vital documents written by various legendary Assassins and Templars, hiding them away in an undisclosed location, before issuing a decree ordering all Master Assassins in the cell to disband. Once they were all in hiding, Abstergo agents raided the former headquarters, destroying the museum. The destruction and disbanding of the cell’s former headquarters brought the activities of the Women’s Liberation Front to an end after 46 years.
Legacy[]
- "Any time my mother’s name gets mentioned in political conversation, I’ve seen a chill go down several people’s spine. Most of them are conservatives."
- ―Margaux Allard on her mother being an enemy of conservatism, August 2004.
Over the forty-six years of the cell’s existence, Isabelle’s cell left behind a rather positive legacy, with many people stating that Isabelle and her cell of Assassins were heralded as ‘champions of humanity’ for their humanitarian work and their efforts to combat poverty in African countries. Isabelle’s cell was also praised by feminists for their 1964 protest, which earned women more rights in France, and inspired other feminist movements across Europe. The cell was also praised by countries such as Cuba for their views on imperialism and colonialism, as well as the Soviet Union for its views on fascism.
Isabelle’s cell did receive criticism though. Many conservative politicians called Isabelle and her cell ‘dirty communists’ for her views on imperialism and colonialism and criticized Isabelle directly in 1963 for assisting African-Americans as a white woman while visiting the United States. Many critics called Isabelle’s protest in 1964 a way for ‘four desperate women trying to garner attention for themselves.’
Xavier Andreu, Isabelle’s ex-husband, called Isabelle a ‘greedy, power-hungry bitch’, and a ‘chaser of clout.’ Xavier called other members of her cell ‘ungrateful little bitches.’ These comments were made out of spite towards Isabelle after their divorce in 1961.
Isabelle and her fellow Assassins were frequently criticized by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, calling them ‘socialist devils’ quite frequently, and even clashed with Vivian in the halls of the British parliament.
Isabelle’s cell was criticized by some members of Delta Squadron, stating that Isabelle and her cell ‘put too much attention on themselves and threatened to expose the Assassin Order with acts such as their 1964 protest.
From the ashes of Isabelle’s cell, Margaux and Valerie would form a new Assassin cell in 2004 containing members of the Dorian, Williams, and Cadieux-Foden families, calling themselves the Eagles of Europe, and being led out of both England and France.
Right-wing politicians and supporters have called Isabelle and her cell ‘enemies of conservatism’, with several right-wing militia groups wanting to specifically kill Isabelle herself due to her beliefs against conservatism, some even going as far as wanting to end her by violent means such as wanting to lynch Isabelle, to which Isabelle replied 'Go ahead, send an assailant my way to kill me. It won't be me that ends up in a body bag.'
Dorian Family-Williams Family Relations[]
Isabelle shaking hands with Felix Williams-Farias after signing the Lebret Agreement, September 1961.
Relations between the Dorian Family and the Williams Family of Germany have always been marred with tension over the years, due to a conflict over the custody of the Gauntlet of Eden, a mysterious artifact that has the power to conjure up the future and alternate timelines upon wearing it. After the fall of Xavier Baudin in 1903, Vienna placed it in an Isu Vault underneath a small church near Lebret, Saskatchewan. Its placement there sparked an ever-lasting feud between the two families in May of 1961, Isabelle would discover its location, and use it herself before it retreated into the ground. Many members of the Williams family were very critical of Isabelle for her actions with the Gauntlet and demanded she is held responsible for them. Isabelle apologized for her actions and proposed an agreement between the two families that would cede the vault underneath the church in Lebret to the Williams family. In September of 1961, members of the two families (Lillian Petersson, Isabelle Allard, and Donald Petersson for the Dorian Family, and Felix Williams-Farias, the 13th Count of Berkshire, Elizabeth Baudin, Chase Baudin, Prudence Bythesea, and the legendary Quin Williams for the Williams Family) were present for the signing of the Lebret Agreement, an agreement drafted by Isabelle and Vivian which ended all Dorian Family/British Brotherhood claims to the Vault, and by extension, the Gauntlet of Eden which rested underneath the floor of the Vault, and that the Gauntlet will return to the hands of the Williams Family and the German Brotherhood, ending a decades-long feud between the two families. Vivian Cadieux-Foden, Quin Williams, and John Ell presided over the contract negotiations that took place in the chapel shrine in Lebret above the vault itself, which ended with a handshake between Isabelle and Felix over where the Gauntlet once rested.
After the agreement’s signing, John promised the Williams family that he would watch over the vault, with Quin jabbing a bony finger into his chest telling him to hold on to it, which he would do until his death in 2002. Isabelle also said she would honor the agreement, which earned her a bony finger from Quin to her chest.
The relations between the two families did indeed improve, and would eventually lead to a temporary alliance shortly after the agreement was signed, and a formal alliance would be made thirty-four years later in March of 1995 between Isabelle’s daughter Margaux and Prudence Bythesea after each cell helped each other off and on over the years. The Lebret Agreement is still honored to this day between the two families.
Members[]
- Isabelle Allard (1954-1986)
- Vivian Cadieux-Foden (1954-1986)
- Irina McCall (1955-1990)
- Diane Laurent (1955-1965)
- Xavier Andreu (1954-1961)
- Edouard Docieux (1954-1986)
- Margaux Allard (1981-2000)
- Valerie Cadieux-Foden (1981-2000)
- Irene Andreu (1995-2000)
Art Credits[]
All artworks on this page were painted by Timaeus (@timayonnaise on Instagram).