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 * Ant Farm Writing Activity Journal Entries-Esther Kim 9G**

= **Character Description** = []
 * Name:** Chloé Vigée
 * Age:** 22
 * Gender:** Female
 * Occupation:** She does not have a specific occupation because as a female member of the nobility, any kind of work manual, scientific, or artistic was considered unworthy of her status. Furthermore, she could depend on her father for income and the assistance of many domestic servants from the working class living in her estate.
 * Social Class:** Noble, Second Estate.
 * Financial situation:** She is extremely rich. Additionally, her family is exempted from paying major taxes to the French government prior to 1789. As a more progressive type of noble, her father did not only depend on the traditional noble's income of land fees paid to him by his peasant tenants: he also added to his wealth by investing surplus funds in joint-stock companies that performed manufacturing and long distance trade.
 * Appearance:** She is neither skinny nor fat. She has light brown hair and is dressed luxuriously.
 * Location (Map of France, Map of Paris Must be in the Paris region.)**She lives in a huge house located in Faubourg Saint-Honoré.
 * Habitual locations: (where are you found most of the time?)** She could be found in the courtrooms, parlors, and halls. Moreover, she often visited other noble women’s houses to have social interactions.
 * Daily routine: (typical day for you)** She would wake up and get properly dressed, assisted by several of her family's domestic servants. She had hearty and fancy meals often with meat that was hunted in accordance with the laws that allowed hunting only for the monarchy and the nobility. Vigée spent most of the time at home where she entertained herself by gossiping and socializing with other nobles. Vigée often cisited other noble women’s houses to have conversations while having tea. Occasionally, she would study languages, Bible, current events, and various light intellectual pursuits. This learning was not designed for a job or career but to make her look sophisticated and presentable to her future husband. At night (early night), she would get ready to sleep and go to bed.
 * Personality/Quirks/Unique Personality Traits:** She is very sophisticated and majestic as she grew up in a dignified family. She does not respect the Third Estate members but rather, scorns and mocks them.
 * Past/individual-family history:** Vigée grew up in a flourishing family. Hundreds of years earlier, her ancestors inherited vast land from the Carolingian dynasty, which allowed the family to obtain greater political and social power. Her family also had a strong relationship with the bishops of France and thus the Catholic Church, which further strengthened them. Intermarriage with the family members of other noble families gave her own family even greater standing.
 * Family: (spouse? siblings?...)** She has rich parents who provided education and upon their death, left great wealth and land for her and her brother, Armand Vigée. Armand got most of the wealth and land since he was the first born son. Her husband is a man from a German family with a long and rich history in the nobility of Germany. They have one daughter, called Elizabeth.
 * Social relations with your own and other classes (people you deal with or know about in the class, AND your opinions and feelings about them):** She has good social relations with the nobles as she places much efforts in having as much as social interactions as possible. She loves to socialize and often visits them for gossip and also for information about the growing resentment against the nobility by members of the bourgeoise and the state of the French government's bankruptcy. Although many members of the Third Estate bourgeoise are as wealthy as her, she does not share an amiable relationship with them and derides and scorns them since they don't have noble birth. She also thinks that the working class members of the Third Estate are an eyesore in the otherwise beautiful streets of Paris. Moreover, as for the peasant members of the Third Estate, she doesn't respect them or see them as equals.
 * Religion:** She is a Roman Catholic.
 * Education:** She is fairly well educated since she is from a rich family.
 * Languages you speak:** French is her birth language, but since she is a noble she also learned some English, German, Italian and Greek. This is important since she has to entertain guests from foreign countries and visit foreign countries with her chaperone.
 * Main privileges and/or hardships:** She is exempt from being required to pay taxes.
 * Portrait: (find one online and paste it in)**