Look to the DBWI: What happened to Lisieux?
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I Blame Communism
Banned
It seems to me that everyone has long been making the mistake of taking everything the staff at face value. While motivations could be almost anything, if we assume that the clerks or one of them murdered the Administrator, disposed of his body, and started repeating old orders to conceal his crime until everyone would be too relieved and panicked to ask questions... it all fits very neatly.
As to motivation... maybe they were paid by someone. Maybe not.
As to motivation... maybe they were paid by someone. Maybe not.
What spelling mistake?
...I personally think it was Pelletan who killed him then covered it up.
Lisieux seemed to vanish in thin air. To be honest, he seemed so deteached from reality it is ntirely possible he didn't exist himself and the Boulangerie merely invented him just like L' Emperatuer. The Revolution was so nhilistic and so all-consuming that its leaders relied so little on the truth that we can't be sure about anything.
Considering the history of the Carolinians, one can't wonder if 'Pablo Juarez' merely went to a different part of the Americas than the commonly-assumed UPSA and began stirring up dark inspiration there on a much quieter level than he did in France.
I've always been partial to the theory Lisieux was never in the room at all: a man of his paranoia and brillent insanity would never trust physical barriers when he could hide behind mental ones - he was in another part of the building, and his closest clerks (all of whom died very convienently afterward*) would take corrispondences to and from "Lisieux's Office" and his true location. Are we really to believe that for several weeks no one tried to empty the chamberpots in Lisieux's office? With the shell game exposed the Adminstrator fled into the night to die some anonymous death in the fields of France.
*Horace Wentersfield: "Institutional Meltdown in late-phase Revolutionary movements" 1967.
*Horace Wentersfield: "Institutional Meltdown in late-phase Revolutionary movements" 1967.
It is evident from any cursory examination of the records of the governments of the Anglic Cabal that Jean de Lisieux was an elaborate construct perpetuated by Napoleone Buonaparte and Horatio Nelson to remake the continent of Europe in their own image, with themselves placed in important roles in this 'new society'. They employed an actor to act as the leader of the Republic, operating solely on orders received from the two naval captains; indeed, the French semaphore network was created for the single purpose of transmitting those orders with more speed. Unfortunately for them, the actor - a poor wretch by the name of Urbain Fabre - attempted to blackmail them by threatening to reveal their plot to the Holy Roman Emperor in 1807. Having actors impersonate him in Royal France, Bounaparte travelled to Paris and murdered Fabre, disposing of his body in one of the mass graves, before creating the Administrateurbunker and its bizarre method of missive distribution, using clerks sworn to secrecy. Once Buonaparte was safely back under the King's protaction, Nelson instructed one of his agents in the French Army, a naturalised Italian named Peloton, to travel to Paris and 'expose' Lisieux's 'disappearance'.
The French Republic is the greatest conspiracy in the history of mankind, perpetrated by the Anglic Cabal, whose governments are still controlled by the families and descendants of Nelson and Buonaparte. LisieuX was obviously fake - how can one attempt to take over Europe with NO BACKUP PLAN????!!??!!!!!!!????!?!?!!??? My uncle saw through the Anglic 'historians' - he has travelled to the mass graves, and identified Fabre's body. It is easy to distinguish because of wounds inflicted by ANGLIC weapons!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of course the truth will never be repeated in the Anglic indoctrination camps, with their worship of the tribe...
(Why yes, I am feeling in the mood for ElevenElevenses. Why do you ask?)
The French Republic is the greatest conspiracy in the history of mankind, perpetrated by the Anglic Cabal, whose governments are still controlled by the families and descendants of Nelson and Buonaparte. LisieuX was obviously fake - how can one attempt to take over Europe with NO BACKUP PLAN????!!??!!!!!!!????!?!?!!??? My uncle saw through the Anglic 'historians' - he has travelled to the mass graves, and identified Fabre's body. It is easy to distinguish because of wounds inflicted by ANGLIC weapons!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of course the truth will never be repeated in the Anglic indoctrination camps, with their worship of the tribe...
(Why yes, I am feeling in the mood for ElevenElevenses. Why do you ask?)
Thande
Donor
This is the only part that doesn't quite ring true for ElevenElevenses (I do like that neologism
) as Bone did use actors to impersonate him in the real life of TTL so it seems a bit close to reality for Eleven11 to use This is the only part that doesn't quite ring true for ElevenElevenses (I do like that neologism
Look, imitating that level of crazy isn't easy! It took me half an hour to write that paragraph, and by the end of that I was practically seeing stars! Besides, if I carried on Ian would end up having to roleplay banning me for my roleplayed conspiracy theories...
On the other hand:
[IC] That's what they WANT you to think!
Xanatos Gambit
Lisieux knew once the English Germanic Republic had finished, it would only be a matter of time before he would be called to justice - whether by France, or by Europe. He could not let this happen. He needed a way to keep his reputation, while avoiding retribution.
An idea came to him. He began to draft old orders...
Some weeks later, Lisieux heard the soldiers coming for him some time before, thanks to the listening devices hidden around the building. He quickly donned a disguise, rushed out of the office, and began working on a letter, to the stunned horror of the clerks. With a look he silenced them, saying "I am the chief clerk. Is this understood?" They nodded, afraid to say a word against l'Administrateur.
Pelletan entered the office, demanding to know why old orders were being circulated. Lisieux smoothly stepped up, explaining that they had simply been covering up for Lisieux's incommunicative status. He opened the door for the officers, and watched with glee as they searched his chambers, baffled as to his whereabouts. The soldiers left, and Lisieux began to leave the room a few minutes later. He turned around before leaving, saying, "Not a word." The clerks simply nodded again.
What happened to him after he left the room is anybody's guess...
Lisieux knew once the English Germanic Republic had finished, it would only be a matter of time before he would be called to justice - whether by France, or by Europe. He could not let this happen. He needed a way to keep his reputation, while avoiding retribution.
An idea came to him. He began to draft old orders...
Some weeks later, Lisieux heard the soldiers coming for him some time before, thanks to the listening devices hidden around the building. He quickly donned a disguise, rushed out of the office, and began working on a letter, to the stunned horror of the clerks. With a look he silenced them, saying "I am the chief clerk. Is this understood?" They nodded, afraid to say a word against l'Administrateur.
Pelletan entered the office, demanding to know why old orders were being circulated. Lisieux smoothly stepped up, explaining that they had simply been covering up for Lisieux's incommunicative status. He opened the door for the officers, and watched with glee as they searched his chambers, baffled as to his whereabouts. The soldiers left, and Lisieux began to leave the room a few minutes later. He turned around before leaving, saying, "Not a word." The clerks simply nodded again.
What happened to him after he left the room is anybody's guess...
Interesting theory. I was always fond of the "He and Robespierre were the same person but different personalities" theory, if only to make things more complicated.
Hendryk
Banned
Whatever happened to him, it's clear that his physical disapperance will fuel speculation and possibly create pseudo-messianic movements. Look at the way Che Guevara became an icon of hard leftism in OTL, thanks to his executioners who unwittingly reproduced Christological imagery when they exposed his body (as Catholics, they really should have known better). In TTL, Lisieux could have the same posterity--his empty office mimics the empty tomb of the Risen Christ.
Was it deliberate on Thande's part?
Was it deliberate on Thande's part?
Thande
Donor
Kind of, but the comparison I was going for was the King Under the Mountain, like King Arthur or Charlemagne; it's a similar messianic image, but with the further implications that "he sleeps until the Republic rises again" or similar.
maverick
Banned
Here's a list of theories I found:
1. Lisieux was in fact Nyarlathotep, and when he lost interest in Revolutionary France, he returned to the Nuclear Chaos.
(Not an actual theory, but implied in the short story Nyarlathotep by S. F. Lovecraft)
2. Lisieux hid in the catacombs and succumbed to hunger, was never found.
(A History of the French Revolution, T. Anderson 2009)
3. He was never in the office, he acted as a clerk for weeks before finally getting out of Paris
(A Guide to Conspiracy Theories: from Stonehenge to the Whatian rapture, by B. Lombardi)
4. He was actually part of the Invasion of Britain, killed as a regular soldier and his body buried along with thousands of unnamed french casualties
(To be or not to be: crazy european leaders and their unfortunate demises, by P. Schimidt)
5. Lisieux was killed in the street of Paris weeks before the official "dissappearance", nobody knew that he was in fact missing from weeks before the official one.
(Where on the world is the administrator?)
1. Lisieux was in fact Nyarlathotep, and when he lost interest in Revolutionary France, he returned to the Nuclear Chaos.
(Not an actual theory, but implied in the short story Nyarlathotep by S. F. Lovecraft)
2. Lisieux hid in the catacombs and succumbed to hunger, was never found.
(A History of the French Revolution, T. Anderson 2009)
3. He was never in the office, he acted as a clerk for weeks before finally getting out of Paris
(A Guide to Conspiracy Theories: from Stonehenge to the Whatian rapture, by B. Lombardi)
4. He was actually part of the Invasion of Britain, killed as a regular soldier and his body buried along with thousands of unnamed french casualties
(To be or not to be: crazy european leaders and their unfortunate demises, by P. Schimidt)
5. Lisieux was killed in the street of Paris weeks before the official "dissappearance", nobody knew that he was in fact missing from weeks before the official one.
(Where on the world is the administrator?)