The French Revolution forms the historical backdrop to Arno Dorian's story in Assassin's Creed Unity.
Unity is set mainly in Paris from 1789 through the 1790s, when France experienced the collapse of the ancien régime, political radicalization, violence, and major social change. Arno becomes involved with the Assassin Brotherhood while investigating the murder of his adoptive father, François de la Serre, a Templar Grand Master.
The game depicts recognizable events and figures from the period, including the storming of the Bastille, the execution of Louis XVI, and the rise of Maximilien Robespierre. Its version of history is fictionalized by the Assassin–Templar conflict, but the Revolution supplies the chronology and setting.
The American Revolution appears in Assassin's Creed III, while the Russian Revolution is used in Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia. The Glorious Revolution occurred in England in 1688, almost a century before Unity's main events.