D+Midwife

Name: Valextra Dieudonne Age: 15 Gender: Female Occupation: Midwife Social Class: 3rd Estate Financial situation: Is generally poor, but very skillful and talented than other midwives, since she was an outstanding apprentice at the age of 8. Appearance: Looks young, pure, have strong teeth, light brown hair, and wears a white dress that's a bit dirty. Location of home and/or business: Paris Habitual locations: Homes of many mothers or Daily routine: If she has work to do for for her customers, she goes to their houses, and then Dupont helps christening the new born baby. If she doesn't have work, she helps her mother with house chores and often go to the church. Personality/Quirks/Unique Personality Traits: Valextra is sociable and friendly to other people that she knows many people. Her lively mind makes everyone happy and she never loses her faith and smile. Past / Family History: Her father passed away at the age of 35. Family: She lives with her mother. Social relations with your own and other classes: Usually works for all estates, but mostly second estate. Religion: Catholic Education: She was home-schooled by her mother and father in French. As a midwife, she was educated by an old lady (neighbor) since she was 6. Style of speaking: She speaks politely and "down-to-earth", but when she has her opinions, she does not try to hesitate. Main privileges and/or conflicts: While working, she gets the opportunity to meet people, but she faces financial problems. Portrait: http://www.behindthename.com/names/usage/french http://b-womeninamericanhistory18.blogspot.com/2009/02/women-in-america-timeline-1700-1710.html
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Diary Entry #1 (1788) Just a few days ago, I got a request from one of my earlier customers, Mrs. Pierre. I was glad that she called me again for the fourth time for helping her childbirth, since these days my life is getting harder and harder. The only reason I can stay smiling is my job. I do love my career, assisting and watching a new birth happening in the hands of mine. The moment I handed over her daughter to her arms and to see smiles and cries in Mrs. Pierre's face made me jubilant and proud. What makes me hard is to see some babies die in the process, because they might be weak or sometimes because of me. However, I don't want to think about that, since I already have lots of troubles lingering in my mind. I went to the church to confess about my economic difficulties to Dupont (which for him he had no problems of) and I prayed to God to stop the skyrocketing prices of the bread. I hope I could go work tomorrow.



student wiki: Food Sales The Cost of Bread other students: Mother of 6 Monseigneur

Diary Entry #2 (October 5, 1789) Its being rough and hard to live these days, along with the chaos brought in because of the revolution. Many people are getting involved such as the women who marched to Versailles because of the cost of bread and wanted the king and queen to move to Paris. I would have volunteered to march with the women, but I didn't have that much courage. I recently, helped Mrs. Pierre again for her baby twins and she even told me that she was one of the mothers who stormed into Versailles. As a mother of 6 children, having to take care of all of them with enough food must be hard for her, especially when the prices of the bread are soaring in the sky. Situations in France are bad. These days, I need more money than ever because the breads are so expensive and even taxes are increasing. I was glad to hear Mrs. Pierre, that I went to her as fast as possible, because not a lot of people are needing me. Life is so unfair to pay so many taxes while the rich own lands and pay less taxes. Even the church is involved and they own land while we don't. However, I don't want to think bad about the church yet, but some people around me that I often talk to are starting to question the Church and get more active in the revolutions. I happened to meet a friend of mine, Leon,and he also was mad and worried about the bread costs and he believed there needed to be a change, but he questioned me if it was the right time to have a change. That really struck through me. Really, the suffering of all this taxes and food shortages is for what? This society is unstable and unbalanced of social equality and we need a change, but I don't know where this revolution is going to head to. Nobody knows the aftermath of this huge risk, but I'm willing to become more brave in order to survive.

student wiki: The Cost of Bread The 3rd Estate other students: Mother of 6 Tailor

Diary Entry #3 Life is better than before when Louis XVI used to reign over us. I will have to strongly avow that Napoleon would be a better quintessence of a king. Despite his appearance (quite chubby and short), he is intelligent with tactics in fighting and ruling a government (at least so far). After the Napoleonic Code, since the taxes were somewhat more fairly organized, the soaring costs of bread have decreased. I am not so worried about food and my job, because recently I helped Madeleine. While helping her, we came along talking about our society, and I found out that she didn't receive any education. Now it has changed that ordinary citizens are able to go to new public schools that Napoleon had created. I was glad for the children to be able to access education, because for me, I was home-schooled. Society is keep on changing,, however, there is still one thing that is not changing. I am still displeased about our rights, women rights. I don't know why everything else is changing except for the rights for women. People fight over for freedom and rights, but we women need rights too that we need to fight for.

Later, I happened to meet Leon ,one of my friends, and talk about Napoleon. I told him about everything and how I liked Napoleon, and he seemed pleased about the satisfactory changes for the Third Estate. Indeed they were satisfactory changes from a brilliant military genius, however, I am a little concerned where all this fighting is heading to. Napoleon is great in seizing lands that he made himself emperor,but I hope nothing bad will happen. Now I don't want any change, unless women rights in society. Please I beg you God.



student wiki:Women and the Revolution other students: Tavern Keeper Tailor

Hyperlinks are supposed to integrated into your diary entries, not listed at the end. Your image for diary 3 is quite inappropriate as birth control was not even discussed until well into the 20th century, and certainly would not be part of a predominantly Catholic society! 10/10 9/10 9/10 8.5/10