Given the sci-fi premise to Assassin’s Creed the next outing can pretty much take its pick of historical settings. However, according to at least one industry analyst, it’s going to be 18th century France. Zut Alors!

This nugget of purest intrigue comes via Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter, who is usually more famed for making grand - if sometimes flipping obvious - announcements about the state of the games industry for the benefit of his company’s clients and, of course, our general amusement. There’s little doubting the fella’s connections, though.

Anyway, Pachter was in conversation with the guys from Giantbomb.com when he dropped one of his own, revealing that he had it on good authority that Ubisoft would be shifting the time-frame of the Assassin’s Creed sequel several hundred years into the future - from the Crusades of 1191 to France of the 1700s to be precise. Pachter then went on to speculate that this could well mean that the action takes place during the French Revolution of 1789-1799, at which point our brains filled with images of powdered fops slapping one another other with lace gloves, striped-jumper onion sellers on bikes and other wholly inappropriate stereotypes.

So that’s the rumour. The French Revolution would be a great setting for Assassin’s Creed 2 too - bloody battles, pitchfork-waving peasants (baguette in the other hand, obviously), hot guillotine-related action etc. That said the French were more or less at it the whole century, so let’s just wait and see.