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The name "Lumière" come from the french word for "light", also holding a significant meaning as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumi%C3%A8res a historically important philosophical movement in France.]

 

The name "Lutèce" comes from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutetia old roman name for the capital of France], being renamed to Paris around 310 CE.

 

The territory of Lumière is located around the city of [[New Amsterdam]], an area filled with multiple different biomes, including badlands, beaches, forests, savannas and plains. Lumière's land encompasses a similar area to the province of [[Grand Imperium#Isi|Isi of the Grand Imperium.]]

[[File:MapLumiereJuly2021.png|none|thumb|Terrain Map of Lumière, showcasing its biome diversity and territorial extent.]]

 

 

 

====Origins====

Prior to any official announcement, some farms were renovated on the would-be claims of Lumière to start working towards XP production, a storage bunker was partially built, and ideas on how to organize the city of Lutèce were discussed thoroughly, including the style it would be built it and the arrangement of the roads.

 

[[File:LuteceFactoryBuildingJuly2021.png|thumb|The Lutèce public factory and storage building in mid-July 2021.]]

The territory Lumière was first publicly claimed on June 4th 2021 on reddit. The claims were announced earlier than was planned, with AmandaCC stating "In short, this is a claim to avoid other people claiming this area, but we'll start building a proper city very soon!"<ref name=":1" /> It was about four days later that the first roads in Lutèce were built, made from stone bricks, stone and polished blackstone. On the 13th of June 2021, the first building in Lutèce, [[NebulaSSR]]'s house, was completed.<ref>{{Cite Discord message|sender-link=AmandaCC|sender=Detective Amanda CC|url=https://discord.com/channels/846116287452545025/846124680543993886/853592336620322867|text=Lutece's first building! This will be @NEBULA 's house|date=June 13, 2021|access-date=June 19, 2021|channel=builds|server=Lumière}}</ref> The first build in Lutèce established its previously agreed upon style: late 19th century to early 20th century french architecture, notably [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Paris Haussmannian] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaux-Arts_architecture Beaux-Arts stye] buildings.

 

Lumière's first food bank was built on the 17th of July 2021. Located close-by to the factory building, it provides bread to "friends of Lumière" as well as potatoes and fish to citizens.<ref>{{Cite Discord message|sender-link=AmandaCC|sender=Detective Amanda CC|url=https://discord.com/channels/846116287452545025/846117237873573918/866142339863805962|text=(...) The Lutèce Food Bank has now opened, only a few dozen blocks away from the public factory building! Citizens (those having access to LUM-II) may take potatoes or fish (we might add meat in the future as well) and friends of the nation (those having access to LUM-I) as well as obviously citizens have access to droppers which dispense loafs of bread! (...) |date=July 17, 2021|access-date=July 17, 2021|channel=announcements|server=Lumière}}</ref>

 

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