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**Age**: 41 **Gender**: Male **Occupation**: Bookstore Clerk **Social** **Class**: Third Estate **Financial** **situation**: Owns his own bookstore. Enough money to live adequate life, but sometimes runs out of money buying books. Owns one white horse. **Appearance**: Tall man with balanced body. Enjoys wearing sweater. Neat brown hair, thick black glasses, with large nose. **Location**: He lives in S Denis by himself **Habitual locations**: Raoul spends his time mostly in his bookstore which is located 10minutes walking distance away from his house. **Daily routine**: -wakes up early in the morning -goes to work, read during free time -return to home at 7 -(sometimes relax on a bench beside a river after work) **Personality/Quirks/Unique Personality Traits**: Bookworm, generous, friendly. Has allergies to fish. **Past/individual-family history**: Raoul was born in a rich merchants family. He was unusually smart, graduated university and went to England to study. Raoul was very bright on economics. He was supposed to receive lots of money from his progenitor, but one of his dad’s worker betrayed and stoled all the money. **Family**: Raoul is not married, no siblings, passed away parents. **Social relations with your own and other classes**: Raoul seldom meets clergy or middle class merchants in his store. His friendliness makes the customers feel welcome. Raoul spends time with Ged(neighbor) when he is not at work. **Religion**: Christian **Education**: Graduated University, studied overseas. **Languages you speak**: Fluent French and English **Main privileges and/or hardships**: Raoul can read and write. Since he owns the bookstore, he gets to read and taste lots of books. However, he sometimes feel depressed of the fact that he does not have anyone to love. **Portrait**:
 * Name**: Raoul Arpin

=Journal Entry 1= I was dusting off my old J.J.Rousseau pamphlet as usual, the one displayed outside my store, when Edgar Guillmette, a frequent customer, showed up. He looked tired but he had urgent news. Edgar is a construction worker in Paris with dreams of becoming an architect. He always comes to the shop to read about construction and architecture. Anyway, he had a topic to discuss. Everyone knows that the Third Estate became the National Assembly of France without the King's permission after the Tennis Court Oath, and Louis the XVI told the army try to dissemble them with military force. This Tennis Court Oath was such a big deal since King Louis tried to block the representatives of Third Estate from forming the National Assembly. Thus, the effect of the Oath completely went against what the King wanted, and it seems as though it was a direct act of rebellion. The events that led the Third Estate to become the National Assembly and overthrow the general order unleashed the powerful social forces. This inspired the people to storm the Bastille to look for weapons to start a revolution. The pamphlet by J.J.R. influenced people with an idea of "change" and attracted lots of people to my bookstore. I was pleased that citizens of France could get some courage with this pamphlet, but on the other hand, I am a little bit anxious that troops will take over the books for fear of inspiring more revolution. This was July 14th. =Journal Entry 2= I rode my horse, Orange, to work today. I tied him in front of the shop, and while I was enjoying my morning coffee, the sounds of people shouting and horses racing by got my attention. Not having any customers yet, I mounted Orange and followed them. In my haste, I almost knocked a man over. He too was chasing the carriage seems to be royal, and I offered to let him ride behind me. On our way, we briefly introduced ourselves. His name was Gautier, and he was a merchant. We discussed the commotion, and both of us assumed that the king was fleeing, as we had predicted he would. Gautier told me that the King was running east. Louis had left behind a justification for fleeing, and he wanted to return to the privileges of the Ancien Regime. I was surprised that a merchant would know this much gossip, so I pressed him for more. He said that there was a threat made on the life of Marie Antoinette, and this was why they were fleeing. We finally caught up with the crowd, only to see the Royal Family being pulled from the carriage. The King looked nervous. Everyone was happy, cheering for his death. I was happy that citizens of France gained courage. Since I am one of them and I also want freedom, death of Louis was something to cheer about. This was July 16th. =Journal Entry 3= The long French Revolution was finally over. I watched Louis XVI go to the guillotine, and Marie Antoinette followed a month later. With the cruel monarchy gone, I could finally relax and never think about the unfairness of taxes or worry about the weak leadership. One day, a person from the government came into my bookstore. When he picked a book and came into the cashier, he secretly whispered that Napoleon Bonaparte had crowned himself and will appear in public in just a few days. Surprised and shocked, I was curious who the man was. I glanced at my books--perhaps I might have books about him. Napoleon Bonaparte is a french military leader and now leader of the France. I was so excited as a citizen so I ran out of the door and started talking to the first person I met, just because I was eager to gossip. His name was Bernard. I told him that Napoleon, the military hero, had been named Emperor of France. I could see Bernard's face furrow when he heard that Napoleon crowned himself. This ground-breaking act symbolically meant that Napoleon did not owe his crown to any divine power and that the Pope correspondingly did not hold a position higher than the Emperor. I walked out of the building with a smile. "This is going to be good after all." This was December 2nd.