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Name:Josephine Martin Age:20 Gender:Female Occupation:Cleaning Lady in Palace Social Class:Third Class Financial situation:Poor, but has a money to take care herself and her family. Appearance:Not too skinny and not too fat. Although she is 20, she looks much younger. Location:Versailles Habitual locations:Cleaning room or around the palace cleaning around. Daily routine:Wake up at 5am in the morning, eat simple breakfast or maybe not.Get ready to go to palace. Walk to palace which takes 1 hour. Arrive in palace at 6am, Start cleaning the palace. After working 7hours of working, walk back to home and have dinner with family. Personality/Quirks/Unique Personality Traits: Sometimes energetic or dullness. Also independent to take care herself and her family on her own without any help from others. Past/individual-family history: Her father past away when she was 3years old, so she cannot remember how he looks. He doesn’t remember much about him. She has one brother to take care most of the time and her mother worked. Family:Husband(Nicholas Martin) and Son(Alexis Martin) 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):Isabelle Arnaud, she is a friend in palace. She is gardner in palace. She is very friendly and kind. Talks a lot in palace at free time with no work. Religion:No religion for now. Education:Graduated elementary, middle, and high school. Also graduated college, but none of them are good. Languages you speak:French Main privileges and/or hardships:Often writes a poem or story to teach her children about the revolutionary ideas or other. Always uses all of money for family not for herself. Portrait:

Diary Entry #1

It’s been a month that I’m being rested because I was pregnant. It was my second time having a baby. I’m finding having a second baby is filling sometimes easy and hard. In these days, my husband(Nicolas Martin) is still busy farming and I’m only in house working a bit but not much and taking care of my son. It is almost the day that my baby will come out. I was worried if my baby comes out when my husband is farming. Also I was worried about my work and the money I have. It was little hard to live only my husband working and gaining money. I couldn’t move or do much things because every moves I do it is very hard with baby. Then I got little tired so I went to sleep. Suddenly I felt hurt, it was the baby. It was the time for the baby to come out. I didn’t have the energy to walk to neighbors, so I scream and then they came and went to get my husband. After 2 hours my baby came out, but then it wasn’t crying. Everyone was surprised and they checked the baby and it was not alive, it was dead. My husband was shocked and he and my neighbors were afraid to tell me that my baby was dead. I asked why the baby wasn’t crying they said my baby was dead. When I heard I nearly fainted and so sad. It was my worst day during my life.

After few months of that I heard that third estates name themselves National Assembly. They made a pledge called Tennis Court Oath. Me and my husband was involved in this. We contributed in those as much as we can. Everyone around me or in France has an idea of revolutionary idea. Also everyone hated Marie Antoinette, the queen, because she spends so much money in waste.

Diary Entry #2

Today I heard there was execution of King Louis XIV, everyone was going out to watch. This is one of the first event for the revolutionary idea. As my husband went out to see execution, I stayed at home. In a quiet home I was thinking that why there is revolution? I like to have peace with no wars and revolutions. Also the economy was terrible, because of Marie Antoinette she was wasting her money with not useful things. These days if someone does something wrong, they execute people with cutting off the head. It was just disgusting to watch. In addition it was hard to earn money first estate people would just to like live peacefully themselves. I heard some people got very angry at King Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette, because they tried to escape dressing like servants. They were escaping because, maybe they thought it wasn't safe enough so to live. But one of the society called Jacobins were not letting them escape.

Diary Entry #3

Today my uncle(Bastian Armand) came to my house at afternoon. At first I didn't recognize his face because it was almost ten years I haven't seen him. I realized that he changed a lot in everything like appearance. But only one thing was that his personality hasn't changed. We talked through how we lived through ten years of not seeing each other. We were talking about how we lived through revolutions. Then he told me about the New Emperor Napoleon's coronation. I didn't know about and I didn't hear about it. It was new event and curious to know what's going to happen. I went to see that event with him. When we arrived in that place, there were already many people, but we were able to see Napoleon's face. When I was listening and watching his speech, I thought he might be or will be better than King Louis XIV. In addition he changed a lot in country with revolutions and saving the country. However there was nothing much change in other people's life within revolutions. It was just one of the event it happened.