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 * Using your text (pp. 229-230 //"Napoleon Seizes Power")// and the sources above write an entry describing this period. Be sure that you answer the following: Did the revolution serve the interests of your character? Explain and defend in your entry. **
 * This is your final entry. Be sure to show that this is the end of your entries for the French Revolution.**
 * N.B. Be sure to collaborate with another member of class in editing diary.**

October 5, 1800
 * Entry III: **
 * Dear Diary,**

The civil war has finally ceased as Louis XVI faced his abdication, or simply, death. We thought it was all over. But people tend to possess the contrivance to achieve a goal, but not the knack to deal its aftermath. The majority created a chaos to bring freedom but they were inept in bringing resurgence; the nation was in an enormous debt. The People's reputations did no good to reimburse the charges. I thought the left handed men were pushing themselves too hard in order to keep up their pace to the radical changes. However, the pace has already exceeded far beyond people's capability and they needed an assistance, they needed a new leader, a new dictator.

A new valor, ingenious, determined man was told to represent the society and champion the revolution; the man's name was Napoleon Bonaparte. He became France's new leader since the new century began and I thought good fortunes of the third estates men would pursue along with the commencement of the fresh new century.

It sure did, and most importantly, to all men. And among those men, I believe I benefited the most for I have always sought fairness of all men. Napoleon's dexterity with numbers finally brought atonement to the economy and breads to the 97%. His organized attribute resulted in an efficient novel banking system and the creation of the Napoleonic Code which alleviated the corruptions of the abhorring political parties.

The Revolution finally abolished feudalism and provided erudition to all boys as the future potentials of government officers. I saw the potential that in a decade or two, the bottom-staged men will elevate to the zenith, working for the government officials and ruling the entire government affairs. The destruction of feudalism also yielded ease to access to other states which gave me a huge advantage to my business. It was now legitimate to live with my fellow housemate (a prior third estate man) who is also an ingenious conman.

Although I had to spend some banal hours in a penitentiary for my status as a prior noble, I got out of the jail quicker than anyone else since my donations to the prior third estate men gave me the reputation that I was their hero and that I deserved a better treatment. For the first time in my life, I felt thankful to my investment to the poor citizens and also felt proud of my job as a con artist. During my sojourn in the prison, one thing I thought was intriguing was the conversation with a young noble girl named Anne Boucher. She was a typical type, a curious and empathetic person whose personal wishes were all granted by her affluence except to know how the other 97% of the people lived. I have never seen a prisoner who felt gracious to experience the awful life in jail; she deemed that it was simply fair to be punished by the new society even though she was not culpable of being unaware of the third estate's life style. I learned from such a young girl that even in this brutal world of revolution, there were wealthy ones who sought fairness which gave me hope that soon the day of equality will come.

But the most valuable benefit I earned from the revolution would be another hope. Maybe one of those days I will be able to find my bloodline parents and receive the love that I should have received since long time ago.

**Using your text (Chapter 7 Section 2) and the sources above write an entry describing one of the important events mentioned during this radical phase of the French Revolution. Again, you are writing from the perspective of your character. As well, you might also consider if your character would become a Jacobite or Girondin.**
 * N.B. Be sure to intersect with another person in the class. That person should NOT be one of your table mates.**

January 23, 1793
 * Entry II:**
 * Dear Diary,**

The revolution has finally taken its skyrocketing lift-off. Just two years ago, Louis XVI reluctantly signed the Parliamentary Constitution which gave the legislative branch the authority to fabricate and secure laws. Also, the National Assembly adopted a statement of revolutionary ideals, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizens. Pertaining to the enlightened notion by and early philosophe, John Locke, the ideal assured the prerogative equal natural rights of all men: liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression. However, it is hard for me to imagine the assurance of our rights under a man not of our representative. Besides, even though the same rights: life, liberty, property, were promised to be guaranteed by the prior King when Locke was alive, history tells us that it never worked out and these precedents, I believe, tend to repeat no matter what type of special circumstances apply.

Anyhow, I was told lately that the King and his wife attempted to flee the nation due to the enhancing violence of the radicals. Soon enough, on this very day, the King was executed in front of my eyes by those men of "catalytic" manners.

Recently, another revolutionary document was publicized with the cooperation of the King Fredrick William II, the Prussian King, the Declaration of Pillinitz. During the signings, I came to know a group named the Jacobites. Although I am a noble, I realized that my tenets and values always leaned towards the radical changes of the society due to my historical background and with the joining of such faction, those values have solidified.

Soon, I became a Jacobite with my friend Blaîse Tavernier who is a blacksmith of the third estate that I came to know while regularly visiting his smithy for my art materials **.** I decided to convene other indignant citizens to be part of the community as well.

Albeit it seems that there had been a plethora of progress made over the past 4 years, rules and insurance might have altered a little, but the large picture remained stagnant. Poors still cannot afford to buy necessities to survive, especially breads, and the King's only solution to reimburse the debts to other countries was to create even more wars against other countries to win their possessions, but actually further burgeoned their debt.

I hope the National Assembly could find a much efficient way of yielding direct positive impact to all the poverty-stricken families out there, dying for both physical and mental starvation.

=== Using information from the text (Ch. 7, Sect 1) and the [|eyewitness accounts] from Thomas Jefferson - who happened to be in Paris when this was all beginning - write a 1-2 page entry about your involvement in or thoughts on __one__ __of the early events__ in the Revolution. __Reference to something in Jefferson's accounts is MANDATORY!__ ALSO, please remember that you are writing from the PERSPECTIVE of your character NOT NECESSARILY YOURS! What would they have thought or done AND why? ===

Entry I: July 19, 1789 Dear Diary,

As expected, the squandering proclivity of both Louis XVI and his wife Antoinette led to the formation of the Estates General Meeting which no one would have ever imagined being reopened for over a century. As part of the assembly, I observed sundry differences amongst the delegates of the participants; their superficiality especially. In fact, the clothes they wore were blatantly divided into three sections from opulent to penniless ones so that any man could have easily found out which man belonged to which estate. Even before the conference began, I was irritated by the way the first and second estates delegates flippantly gazed at the destitute ones without any compassion nor sense of equality.

While enjoying the intermission of the meeting, it was sad to realize that there were third estate citizens like Jacqueline-Adelle Cartier who works to buy the necessities to survive whilst they were other noble-classed ones like Raphael Lacroix who enjoys wasting money extravagantly by throwing parties and inviting hundreds of people. And even though both these discriminating people inhabit so close to each other, no compensation are made or were willing to be made.

Despite being a man of nobility, I am a sturdy advocate of the enlightened ideas and the natural rights of all men. Excluding my history as a formal third estate infant, my decision to support the third estate is not of shared sympathy, but of impartial morality that rooted from the constitution.

I truly deem that the third deserves more authority and liberty not only because they make up the 97% of our population of 26million, but also they had enough power to form the "National" Assembly. Besides, to think of all those indignant men attempting to rebel against the 3%, I believe the choices available to Louis XVI is to either provide the third estate with fairness or bring bedlam to the first and second estate which probably will result in the day of the King's execution anyways...

The voting of the meeting was about to commence and this time, the first two estate delegates did not have the confidence to condescend the third. Men like me are the ones whose mostly feared by the first and second estates because they are aware that half of the assembly’s delegates are from the third estate. Hence, if any noble delegate champions the provision of latitude to the third estate, it is almost certain that the favor of majority will lean towards the third; since the tenacity of the third’s to support the enlightened notions of public liberty cannot possibly be overthrown by any reasons that will lead a third estate delegate to vote for the favor of the first two estates.

I believe the true brawl of the estates is about to begin for the rising taxes of the incomes of the third estate is unconstitutionally seized away by the King whilst the rich nobles are desperately seeking ways to squander their wealth; they might not even know what tax is and how it is murdering the toiling laborers that serve for the noble’s comfort. Already in a downtown penitentiary Bastille, an associate of mine named Thomas Jefferson sent me a message that civilians are assailing the fortress in order to obtain arms.

Although I am a pacifist who disapproves violence, I got to admit, it might be the only way for the third estate to earn their morality that they deserved from the day they were born.