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Name: Cécile Criosseux

Age: 18

Gender:Female

Occupation:Street Performer (Dancer)

Social Class: Third Estate

Financial situation: poor; Enough money for herself but not for her family. Sometimes earn enough money to buy food or supplies for her family. Beside all of these, she can not afford to buy a dancing shoe for herself.

Appearance:Long curly brown hair and brownish eyes. Skinny and dresses normal like others.Looks mature for her age

Location ( [|Map of France], [|Map of Paris] Must be in the Paris region.  Habitual locations: (where are you found most of the time?)  Around Vincennes, her family lives in a very small cottage but able to live with all of her family members. Few cottage around the neighborhood and is located up by the hills.

Daily routine: (typical day for you) -Wakes up and help mother to get ready for breakfast -Clean up the mess and get ready for work -Move place to place every hour to dance -Comes back home around 5:00pm and take care little sister. Not very intelligent but is very compassionate -Prepare dinner for her family and wait for her parents to come home -Practice the dance for few hours before she goes to sleep

Personality/Quirks/Unique Personality Traits: Persistent,compassionate, considerate and feels very responsible for her family. Cares and adores her little sister. She is very enthusiastic about dance and always put her best effort in dancing.

Past/individual-family history: Has burden of being the eldest daughter in her family. Her father can’t use his hand due to an accident he had working in the field. He still goes out for work but does not earn like he used to before hurting his hands. Since he can’t work, she works extra hard to earn money to buy supplies needed in the house.

Family: (spouse? siblings?...) Father- Nicolas Criosseux Mother-Eleanor Criosseux Younger sister- Genevieve Criosseux Younger brother- Andre Criosseux

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): Helps her neighbor when they are in needs but not as much as she does for her family.

Religion: Catholic

Education:Knows only how to write and read.

Languages you speak: French

Main privileges and/or hardships: Growing up in an environment where she has to earn money at young age, she is very matured. It can be very emotional but she expresses all of her feelings by her dance movement.Fortunately, when people sees her dance they are touched or get impressed by her dance.

Portrait: (find one online and paste it in)



=Journal Entry 1= Diary Entry #1:

Dear Diary, today I just decided to perform around the place other than Vinicinne because the crowd got tougher as time went on. It was frustrating so I chose to try out for a new place to see what they had. Well, the performance was pretty better than that of any other days back in home. Fortunately,I earned enough money to buy some food. As I walked around the village, I saw a store that sold food supplies. With pleasure, I went into the store with hope of buying plenty of the daily bread.While I was looking around, the merchant seemed very nice and started to talk with her. Her name was Elaine Rémy. Elaine and I had a conversation walking outside. Then, Elaine mentioned that her husband was participating in the Bastille. Then we decided to check the situation and took off briskly to Bastille. As we were on our way, we met him and his countenance seemed to show that something was going wrong. Something had gone really wrong when we arrived and looked at Bastille. I asked one of the guards what had happened. Lots of people were killed including all of the people inside and outside the prison.What had happened to this place? Bastille was not the place that I used to know. Well, this is it for today diary! It has been awfully long day.

= Journal Entry 2 = Diary Entry #2: January 21,1793

Dear diary, you won’t believe what happened today. King Louis XVI was executed. In the morning, I went to the Place de Louis XV to see the execution of King Louis XVI. Even though it was an early morning,a lot of people came to see the King’s head flying off. After the chaotic situation, I was planning to go return to my home, which took me a long time to walk back. As I was walking, I counted the bread to see if I had enough to eat for supper. Then, I see this girl-I was not even sure of whether she was a girl by only looking at the back of her head- sneaking away as she picked and stole a loaf of my bread.

Immediately, I chased after her and succeeded in catching her. Eponine Thenardier seemed to be around my age. She had no proper clothing with her homey looking with thin, pale lips. I decided to share the bread with her and just asked a few questions. I started off with a question asking if she felt sorry for the king’s death. Well, we all knew that the king and the queen had lived a ridiculously extravagant life, while we were starving to death. I would say that he didn’t deserve to die because death is never the right answer to end a problem; he most definitely did not deserve to continue to be the king. But Eponine abhorred the king and was glad that he was executed because he did nothing for the poor. She said that his death might bring some good changes from that time on.

Within a few moments, I began with a question about the thoughts of émigrés. I wanted the nobles to be punished. If they had been penalized, then I could have gotten the rights which I always wanted. If I had gotten my own authority, the taxes would have been diminished and I would have finally felt at ease. The last question I asked was the Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen which I had been interested in the most. When Eponine and I were keep bumping into the opinions of each question, the opinions about the Declaration was pretty similar. The overall idea about the Declaration sounded nice and all, but did this apply to each of the people? That was the ultimate question.The Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen was not being applied to women. For that, I felt affinity of the Declaration of Rights of Woman and Female Citizen written by Olympe De Gouges. As we talked about rights of women, there was this woman and her name was something that started off with Mary I think. Anyway, she published //A Vindication of the Rights of Woman// and I would be interested in reading it but too bad it's in English. Eponine seemed uncomfortable as I kept interrogating her with many questions.Then I decided to go home after a long day.

= Journal Entry 3 = Dear Diary, After the chaos,the queen and the king got their head chopped off. Now that the King was gone, I was just hoping for a better leader to lead us. A new ruler that is nothing like Louis XVI. Because of his terrible leadership, the situation lead to the increasing the price of the bread,unfair taxation. Someone, who won’t let the country get into a mess.Today, as usual, I performed in front of the people in the middle of the street and met an woman named Adele. From one of the people, we heard that there is going to be a new ruler and his name was Napoleon B. This guy thinks of himself as an emperor and I was worried about it.Even though there is going to be a new ruler, we’re not sure whether he will regulate the country well. I’m filled with worries but I guess we’ll just wait and see. People said that he was going to make a difference and make things better. For now, I just told Adele what I’ve heard from the other people. I have an uneasy feeling for this guy. Nothing really changed or gave an effect to my family or myself as the revolution went on. Even though, there are big differences changed in our society today, it didn't had a big impact on me. However, it gave me a hard time to earn money and get enough food supply during the revolution. I liked when there was no price increase and I enjoyed the day back in before the revolution. I guess from now on, the future of my family's life will be no trouble. I just hope that the bread prices will never rise and it will drop soon. Since I had no one to talk to or tell the feelings of what I felt during the revolution, writing in this diary was a big help to me and I had fun writing in it. For now, I will just put my diary aside and I will write it again when the right time has come for me. Bye, Diary.