The Law
Purse
One faction across the eras. The numbers are where a new game opens each chapter; in a campaign, loyalty and power carry over from level to level and into the next era.
In chapters 1 to 13
Chapter 1 The Gilded Cage 1783 to 1789
Purse
The tax farmers, who lend the Crown its own taxes.
- Loyalty 55, power 45 when the chapter opens
- Leader: Baron Valmont-Hesse
- Perk, when devoted
- Treasury income +20%
- Threat, when rebellious
- Capital flight: income −30%
Demands
- Renew the tax farmers' lease on easier terms.GrantPurse loyalty +12Income of the Law ×0.85 for 3 turnsRefusePurse loyalty −10
Chapter 2 Year of Fire 1789 to 1794
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Bankers
The financiers who hold the Crown's paper.
- Loyalty 50, power 40 when the chapter opens
- Perk, when devoted
- Treasury income +20%
- Threat, when rebellious
- Capital flight: income −30%
Demands
- Repay the bankers before anyone else.GrantTreasury −50Bankers loyalty +14RefuseBankers loyalty −10
Chapter 3 The Eagle's Shadow 1799 to 1815
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Bank of France
The new bank and the war contractors who lend to the treasury.
- Loyalty 52, power 45 when the chapter opens
- Perk, when devoted
- Treasury income +20%
- Threat, when rebellious
- Capital flight: income −30%
Demands
- Guarantee the war loans, or the bank closes its doors.GrantTreasury −50Bank of France loyalty +14RefuseBank of France loyalty −10
Chapter 4 Barricade Summers 1830 to 1848
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The Bankers
Delorme and his friends: railway concessions, government loans and the advice to get rich.
- Loyalty 58, power 55 when the chapter opens
- Leader: Casimir Delorme
- Perk, when devoted
- Treasury income +20%
- Threat, when rebellious
- Capital flight: income −30%
Demands
- Grant us the railway concessions.GrantThe Bankers loyalty +14Legitimacy −2RefuseThe Bankers loyalty −10
Chapter 5 Straight Lines 1851 to 1870
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The prefect's financiers
Haussier and the banks of the works: loans, expropriations and speculation on the new boulevards.
- Loyalty 62, power 55 when the chapter opens
- Leader: Baron Georges Haussier, prefect of the Seine
- Perk, when devoted
- Treasury income +20%
- Threat, when rebellious
- Capital flight: income −30%
Units
Demands
- Guarantee the works loans. The banks are nervous.GrantThe prefect's financiers loyalty +14Legitimacy −2RefuseThe prefect's financiers loyalty −10
Chapter 6 Seventy-Two Days 1871
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Bank
The Bank of France, its vaults untouched in the middle of the Commune, and its friends.
- Loyalty 60, power 50 when the chapter opens
- Perk, when devoted
- Treasury income +20%
- Threat, when rebellious
- Capital flight: income −30%
Demands
- Promise the Bank that nothing in its vaults will be touched.GrantBank loyalty +14Legitimacy −2RefuseBank loyalty −10
Chapter 7 Home Fires 1914 to 1918
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Arms makers
André Citrange and the owners of the shell factories, and their contracts.
- Loyalty 62, power 55 when the chapter opens
- Leader: André Citrange, shell-factory magnate
- Perk, when devoted
- Treasury income +20%
- Threat, when rebellious
- Capital flight: income −30%
Demands
- The shell contracts, without competition.GrantArms makers loyalty +14The faubourgs −4 toward youRefuseArms makers loyalty −10
Chapter 8 The Grey Years 1940 to 1944
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Contractors
Firms that work for the Directorate, and do well out of it.
- Loyalty 60, power 50 when the chapter opens
- Perk, when devoted
- Treasury income +20%
- Threat, when rebellious
- Capital flight: income −30%
Demands
- The Directorate's contracts, for the firms that ask.GrantContractors loyalty +14patience +3Opinion −2RefuseContractors loyalty −10
Chapter 9 Cold Light 1945 to 1962
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Industry and the banks
The new car works, the reconstruction contracts, the money of the boom years.
- Loyalty 60, power 50 when the chapter opens
- Perk, when devoted
- Treasury income +20%
- Threat, when rebellious
- Capital flight: income −30%
Demands
- Export credits for the car works.GrantIndustry and the banks loyalty +14Opinion −2RefuseIndustry and the banks loyalty −10
Chapter 10 Beneath the Stones 1968
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The employers
The owners of the works, who will pay to have them reopened.
- Loyalty 58, power 50 when the chapter opens
- Perk, when devoted
- Treasury income +20%
- Threat, when rebellious
- Capital flight: income −30%
Demands
- The works reopened, whatever it costs.GrantThe employers loyalty +14Opinion −2RefuseThe employers loyalty −10
Chapter 11 Paper Fortunes 2000 to 2010
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Banks and employers
The banks of La Défense and the employers' federation.
- Loyalty 68, power 55 when the chapter opens
- Perk, when devoted
- Treasury income +20%
- Threat, when rebellious
- Capital flight: income −30%
Demands
- Tax breaks for business.GrantTreasury −30Banks and employers loyalty +14RefuseBanks and employers loyalty −10
Chapter 12 Saturdays 2018 to 2024
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Business
The employers and the shopkeepers of the grand avenues.
- Loyalty 60, power 55 when the chapter opens
- Perk, when devoted
- Treasury income +20%
- Threat, when rebellious
- Capital flight: income −30%
Demands
- The avenue open for business on Saturdays.GrantTreasury −30Business loyalty +14RefuseBusiness loyalty −10
Chapter 13 The Glass City 2041 to 2049
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The Funds
Insurers and investment funds, who price every street by its risk.
- Loyalty 58, power 55 when the chapter opens
- Perk, when devoted
- Treasury income +20%
- Threat, when rebellious
- Capital flight: income −30%
Demands
- State guarantees for the towers’ insurers.GrantTreasury −30The Funds loyalty +14RefuseThe Funds loyalty −10