D+Market+stall+owner

Name: John Candid Age: 22 Gender: Male Occupation: Market stall owner Social Class: 3rd Estate Financial situation: Normal, not too much poor but not really rich. In the past, family was poor but by selling food, financial situation increased. Appearance: Generous looking, brown eyes, brown hair, little fat, average man height (about 173cm), black beard, and little dark skin. Location of home and/or business: Must be in the Paris region, but doesn't have to be IN Paris: (Use these maps to find your neighborhood: Map of France, Map of Paris ) Rural area of Sucy en Brie Habitual locations: Rural area of Sucy en Brie Daily routine: Get some fresh food from market at morning, sell food at afternoon, comeback home at dinner time, and eat dinner with family, and then finally sleep at night. Personality/Quirks/Unique Personality Traits: Hard working, diligent, generous, very good at self controlling, quite independent and revolutionary, kind to neighbors and family, and quite knowledgeable in some fields such as politics and philosophy. Past / Family History: Have two children Johann Candid(Male) and Abigail Candid(Female). However, Abigail died two years ago due to starvation. Family: Have wife (Renee Necoy) and two children, Johann and Abigail. Social relations with your own and other classes (people you deal with or know about in other classes, AND your opinions and feelings about them): I deal with many third estate people. Due to my friendly personality, I easily becomes friend with them. However, I’m not really close with second or first estate people. Religion: Catholic Education: Graduated until middle school, attended high school for only one year. Even though had lack of proper education, still knowledgeable and clever. Style of speaking (i.e. formal, "down-to-earth", crude): Use both informal and formal language. Talks with formal language when I discuss serious problems or share philosophical ideas. However talks in informal language when I have some small talks with neighbors. Main privileges and/or conflicts: Main privilege is selling necessary food for people such as bread. This makes people to buy. It makes some money. Conflict is these days food’s price increased. Worried about that people not might buy it as usual as they did. Portrait (avoid anachronisms -- clothing or objects in your portrait that are from the wrong time period):

May 21st, 1789

Dear diary,

Today was such a busy day. From the morning, I went to market to buy some fresh food for my customers who buy food from my market stall. Bread's cost was tremendously increased... I was worried about my customers who had lack of money and couldn't buy their food. I hope that another inflation will not struck on our country. It will then lead to hyperinflation which will make situation more worse. From the early morning, I opened my shop, as usual, and waited for my customers to come. Many of my customers are diligent and bright. I usually talk with them and they become my regular customers. Even though the food's cost increased, still many people came to my stall. Not as much as before but it was just average. At the afternoon my two favorite customers came. The carter boy, **Victor Simon**, visited to get a loaf of bread. I had small talk with him with short time because he was busy with his work. He is very diligent carter boy. So I gave some more extra bread to him. I didn't feel that I was losing my money. Helping neighbors are good thing as I always thought. After Victor has gone, one of my best buddy, Alexander Martin,came to buy some breads. Even though he lives far away, he visit my shop many times. When he visits, it's always interesting to hear some philosophical ideas and current government and political news. Discussing with him is always fun. He is such an awesome intelligent philosophe. I always get influence by his discussions and ideas. It's a way to develop my intelligence in political fields. After he was gone, it was time to go to my home and have dinner with my family. Today's income was okay. However, me and my wife, Renee Necoy,was only available to get one fish. I thought this much amount of money was available to buy two fishes... We decided to give this fish to our growing lovely son, Johann Candid. He is our only child. I will never let him die due to starvation, because two years ago my dearest daughter, Abigail Candid, has passed away by lack of food. However, it was happy to see that my son was eating all of his food. Such a good child he is. Today was another worthwhile day. Hope a good luck for tomorrow's day too. Bye bye!

From John Candid



Picture: http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Italian-Woman-Selling-Bread-in-Her-Black-Market-Street-Stall-on-the-Tor-Di-Nono-Posters_i3784252_.htm Articles: The Cost of Bread, Inflation in France

July 14th, 1789

Dear diary,

What a glorious day it is! The beginning of the revolution was totally successful. Woah, cheer for our win! From the last week, we, the third estate people, felt something going wrong with the outside of our country. There was the rumor that the king Louis XVI was sending foreign troops to massacre third estate people. We got mad. How can they think of those horrible ideas? This reminded me of revolutionary ideas. Then it rose my independence from my mind. Then suddenly, one of my market friend came to me and told me that in 14th, people will gather at the center of Paris and steal all the weapons from Bastille. This news intrigued me a lot. I wanted to join the revolution. I had revolutionary thoughts only in my head, but didn't show it. Maybe, through this revolution, I can feel what is a real revolution and liberty. Before the night of 14th, I met my other friends, and Jerome Moreau, who will also going to join the revolution. We promise to meet at the center of Paris at 2PM. However, in the morning of 14th, I still opened my shop, just incase if people want to buy food from my shop. Even I opened the shop, I talked with the other stall owners about the revolution. Then there was the wig maker, Gaston Moreau, who came to hear about the news. Then I told him the news about revolution. His eyes were twinkling with interest shining in it. This showed that he is passionate about this revolution. I predicted that he will also going to join the mob like me. The time passed and it was already 2PM. There was full of people and I found my two buddies. At 3 half, all the people gathered and marched to Bastille. It was nervous and my heart was pounding hardly. When the mob, including me, was surrounding large fortress of Bastille, the fight begun. There was cannon fire coming into the crowd and the violence begun. The chaotic situation happened. This chaos was continued until the inner door of the Bastille suddenly opened. When the door was opened, all of us went through the door and right went to the prison, where there was all the weapons. It was a great success. All of us brought all the weapons. We needed to steal it for our safety. When we came out from the fortress, it was already night. To celebrate and cheer our first success in revolution, Victor and I went to Jerome's house to have wine party. Wine tasted really good. Maybe someday, if I have some extra money, I will buy his wine and sell it in my stall. The night was happy and cheerful. Hope for more success in later revolutions!

From John Candid



Picture: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/media/94998/Storming-of-the-Bastille-prison-the-opening-event-of-the Article: The 3rd Estate

November 11th, 1799

Dear diary,

Revolution had just ended yesterday. There is now no king or queen who's treating us in unequal way. Now, there is a new hero for our country, our leader, Napoleon Bonaparte. There was such a big coup d'etat yesterday. Napoleon was the captain who succeeded and ended the disaster. People were sick of the chaotic situations. People begun to distrust each other after the revolution begun. Many of 3rd estate people died too. But then it was Napoleon who actually stopped the whole situation. A new arrival of hero just ended all the tragedies. Finally yesterday after coup d'etat, he became the first consul of our new government. I was talking about our new leader with Leon Fortescue, a tailor. We both agreed that we needed a strong leader, who can lead our government in right way. Napoleon is already France's hero, who's strong and credible, therefore we both thought he was a right guy to become the first consul. My wife, Renee Necoy, also agreed with our opinions. She thought that Napoleon will understand our situation better. He will develop our country so that all of the three estates can have equal rights. Mean while, Alexander Martin, who is my dear philosophe friend, was telling me another opinions from his different viewpoint. He stated that this might can bring the negative effect due to another happening of power. Usually, once people feel the power, they use it in wrong ways. Alexander said that even though he can be a great leader for us now, maybe later we might oppose against him and have coup d'etat against him. I hope that peace will continue in France under Napoleon's fair control.



Picture: http://napoleonbonaparte.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/biographie-de-napoleon-bonaparte-1769-1821-18-et-19-brumaire-a-saint-cloud/bonaparte-lors-du-coup-detat-du-18-brumaire/ Article: Changes that Resulted from the French Revolution