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=Emmett Pierre = //**A Farmer from Third Estate Who Longed for a Revolution... **// 

=Character Creation =
 * //**Name **// || *  Emmett Pierre ||
 * **//Age //** || *  26 ||
 * **//Gender //** || *  Male ||
 * **//Occupation //** || *  Farmer ||
 * **//Social Class //** || *  Third Estate ||
 * **//Financial Situation //** || * Poor
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Not enough money to buy food for family ||
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Appearance //** || * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Not too skinny with a beard and messy brown hair
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">See picture above ||
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Location //** || * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Right outside of Paris
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Map of Paris ||
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Habitual Locations //** || * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Farm
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Home
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">A brewery nearby the farm where the farmers often go after an honest day's work to relax and socialize ||
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Daily Routine //** || * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Wakes up at 5:00 a.m. and starts a day by drinking a cup of milk. Begins to work at 5:30 a.m. which includes, planting seeds, tilling the soil, fertilizing, harvesting, etc. ||
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Personality //** || * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Loving and kind. Hardworking and honest.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Wants to have enough money for food for his family
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Longs for equality - wishes to be richer, but only to have a more comfortable life, not for greed.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Always feels sorry for his family for their social class being in a difficult situation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Funny and likes to joke around with people he is close with. Sometimes acts reckless and thinks he is handsome ||
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Past Family History //** || * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Used to live with his mother, until she passed away (disease).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">He grew up in Third Estate, and his father always longed for a larger farm. ||
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Family //** || * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> A wife and two children ||
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Social Relations //** || * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Own Class: He is known as the handsome young lad who married a beautiful girl and is well liked. He is not very involved in the revolutionary efforts or pays any attention to politics. However, he has been associating with a few bourgeoisie and other young farmers with a little bit of land and is aware that others in his class feel the same difficulties he does.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Other Classes: Emmett has been having conflicts with his feudal land owner for quite some time. His land lord has been making him pay more and more dues for using his land, and Emmett blames his family starving on the upper classes. He does not know a single rich man who has tried to help him out. He believes the rich just want to be richer, and nothing more can be said about their personalities. ||
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Religion //** || * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Catholic ||
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Education //** || * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Low - is literate, but hasn't any formal education.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">He learned to farm from his father and started working on the farm as a young boy. ||
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Languages //** || * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> French ||
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Main Hardships //** || * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Crop failures in the recent years due to bad weather has caused a significant strain on all of the farms in Emmett's region. He is worried day-in and day-out that he will not get paid much for his harvest.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">He fears his wife is becoming skinnier by the day, and his children are not fed well. He remembers growing up hungry as a boy himself, and he does not wish the same memories for his young son. ||

=<span style="color: #4e728b; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Diary Entry I: On the Eve of the Revolution & the Revolution Start =

//**<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">July 13, 1789 **//

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">I am anxious, scared, yet hopeful.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">I have been living in destitute my entire life, and with the baby girl just born, I am not sure I can continue to go on the way I have been. My darling Francesca has been more and more distraught, and my boy, Raoul, is too young to stop complaining about the hunger. Our landlord, Monsieur Rosano, has been asking for more rent in times of desperation, let alone the government taxes on every little grain of food we scrounge. I miss mother dearly in times like this... how is a 26-year-old supposed to go on?

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Of course, Francesca, Raoul, and my new baby girl doesn’t fully grasp what is happening. I don’t want to say anything about the associations I have been making at the brewery, because I don’t want to worry them. But, when the time comes, I will fight. I will stand up for the good people of France. I will fight for justice. I will fight to make France a livable country for my son and baby girl to grow up in.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">I had an encounter with Jean George on the street during the day. He is also a member of the Third Estate, but he is in different shape than I - he has money because he sells more and being a merchant is more profitable than being a farmer. Anyhow he and I had been talking, about how life is - I couldn't help but spill my heart out about how different he and I are, though we are in the same Estate. I told him about Fran, and the babies starving everyday. Well,, that was just to start off the conversation, but Jean, too, thought life was difficult and King Louis's offensive actions as of late have urked something inside him. He is going to fight too. I guess, it is not just about putting bread on the table. It is a matter of social justice!

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Our spirits are high, and we are determined to keep going. I can feel movement coming to my town. People say it won’t be many days until we will get the word from Paris on when we should start our riot in the suburb. My blood boils and hands twitch just thinking about it.

= = =<span style="color: #4e728b; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 24px;">Diary Entry II: The Radical Period =

//**<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">September 10, 1790 **//

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">I am not feeling good these days. Bad weather has caused a significant strain on all of my farms. After I had a lunch, I heard an interesting news from my darling Francesca that Louis XVI is getting executed. Since I wanted to take a break, I went out to the street. As I was walking, I saw my buddy, Nicolas Martin, walking down from the opposite direction. I gladly greeted him and so did he. It was so nice to see another farmer, who shares my struggles. We spoke of the crop failures both agreed that we need to raise the price of bread so we could keep putting food on the table for our family. Then Nicolas mentioned something about the sans-culottes. Nicolas told me how he was not going to stop fighting for the revolution yet. I agreed with him. Although there was a new regime in power, we, the farmers, still don't ahve enough representation or a role in the national Legislative Assembly. I know tons of small shop owners and other Parisian workers who want to be more involved. In fact, several of them went on a killing spree of the French troops defending Paris and all those who still support Louis XVI. I have too much responsibility at home to take part in such raids, but we ought to teach the nobles, priests, and royalist sympathizers what France is really made of.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">What I read in //L'Ami du Peuple// this morning (this guy Jean-Paul Marat as become a popular person among us in the farm), urged us to kill all those who continued to support the king. But the more important message I gathered was that Louis XVI isn't even a king anymore! He is just a commoner! Just like Francesca and I! Jacobins said he committed treason and he would be beheaded at the guillotine. I don't take part in politics. I leave that upto my educated brothers, the ones who can give good speeches and read and help write the new Constitution. But if I ever did go to school longer, I would say I am a little scared about the Jacobins. They are too extreme! It seems they want our Estate to keep the violence on-going agasint the other Estates. But I just want to be happy with my family. I don't like the Jacobins for their crazy, gruesome punishments of people that get in their way. What is different about the Jacobins from the king who wanted everything his way?

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">When will Francesca, Raoul and my baby girl going to be able to live in peace?

=<span style="color: #4e728b; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 24px;">Diary Entry III: =

//**<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Early November, 1799 **//

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Even though I was catholic, I went to church to pray for my family members today. Francesca's health was in decline and my children were having a hard time on starvation. After I was done praying, I saw my childhood friend, Leonardio Perisia<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">, praying in front of me. I have not seen him for a while even though we were living close. When he was done praying, I called his name with a big smile. He saw me in a surprise and greeted me. We went to a bar to talk about life that we have gone through and a little bit of gossips about how the world is going.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">As soon as we arrived at the bar, we started our conversation about this guy named Napoleon Bonaparte. He was not a politician but a military commander. Although he was not a professional at politics, we had confidence that he will make a good politician. We were talking about how Napoleon became a hero and save year of French Republic because he led the French army against Austria, Sardinia and Italy and one against all of them. I am truly hoping that Napoleon makes our situation much better than others did in the past.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">When I came home from the bar, Francesca told me about the Coup d'Etat during the day where Napoleon's troops surrounded the national legislature to drive out the Directory and is awful members! After I heard that story, I got hope in mentally and was certain that he would become a good leader. Just the fact that a guy like Napoleon came into power is a symbol of revolution itself because he was not born as a royal. Perhaps one day my son Raoul would become a military commander and rule France.