D+Mother+of+6


 * Name**: Pénélope Isabel Pierre

**Age**: 20

**Gender**: female

**Occupation**: housewife, mother, wife to John Pierre

**Social** **Class**: third estate

**Financial** **situation**: fairly well, middle classed, husband works for king and queen

**Appearance**: humble housewife, busy taking care of children

**Location of home and/or business**: Paris, portable cobbler station

**Habitual** **locations**: Paris

**Daily** **routine**: Wake up whenever the baby cries, feeds the baby, cleans the baby. Make breakfast and cook. Give chores to the eldest daughter and the little brother helps. Eat and children study while putting the baby down for a nap. Make some lunch and eat. Go out for errands. Go to some food shop like the bakery of fish shop. Come home and clean the children and baby and feed the baby. Go to church and attend the mass, and maybe confess or talk to the priest. Come home and cook dinner and order children to clean while taking care of baby. Wait for John to come home and eat supper. John comes and spends time with the children while mother takes care of the house. Mother puts the baby to sleep while every one else sleeps. Personality/Quirks/Unique Personality Traits: very responsible and loving to children. want to be the best mother and wife. known to be fair, wise, a bit quiet, and polite. very head strong and straight forward.

**Past** / **Family** **History**: Dad was a merchant and mother was a housewife

**Family**: husband John Pierre, the cobbler. 3 children, about give birth to fourth

**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):

**Religion**: catholic

**Education**: learned money and taught house skills to be a housewife

**Style of speaking (i.e. formal, "down-to-earth", crude):** quite soft and articulate

**Main privileges and/or conflicts**: has a bit of hard time taking care of all the children and being a good wife

**Portrait** (avoid anachronisms -- clothing or objects in your portrait that are from the wrong time period):



Journal #1

Dear Journal,
Just a few days ago, I just gave birth with the help of Valextra my midwife who had helped me previously to give birth with my other children John and I decided to call her Charlotte Renee Pierre. She is beautiful with those tender eyes, nose, mouth, cheeks, hands and feet. I dearly love her. A couple of days were hard, I had a lot of pain and felt very fatigue, but on the third day, I was feeling fine and was able to carry out my normal chores and life. I also went about my errands for today. I put the baby down and told my children firmly to protect the baby and quickly went out. I stopped by the bakery, where I did simple business with Sarkozy and bought some bread for dinner. I also notice these days that bread are getting short and much more expensive. I used to see baskets full of bread, but now, there a few left here and there. On the way to home, I stopped by Claudia which I bought some fish to make some soup for dinner. She and I chatted for a minute on the prices of bread and gossiped about the queen and king. I recently have noticed how food and materials was getting expensive and payment was getting low. I dearly hope it's just temporary or else I really do not know what John and I are going to do with our fourth children. Especially since taxes are rising more than ever. It's all because of the war that France was in and the demands! Before dinner, I went to church to pray to God to make the prices stop going so high. I talked to the priest for a while and confessed a couple of things. The one about when I threw a piece of thread on the ground. Thank you God for my lovely fourth child and I hope she is a blessing to us.



student wiki: finance of parisian other students: fishmonger midwife baker cobbler monseigneur

Journal #2



Dear Journal,
I suppose I am in a middle of a revolution. It's chaos here. I've gave birth to my twins just a couple weeks ago and they are adorable and again, Valextra helped me. It was a boy and a girl. John and I named the baby boy John Frank Pierre after my grandfather and John. We also named the girl Isabel Flora Pierre. She has brown eyes which is unusual because only Charlotte has brown eyes. My other children all have blue or green eyes. Recently, the women of Paris marched to Versailles, furious about the cost of bread. I joined them as well, and let out all my anger as I marched with weapons along other mothers. The prices of bread has doubled and the taxes are rising, while our income is the same as ever! How are we supposed to live? I have recently been thinking about my religion, Catholic. I've observed their actions, they own 20% of the land while they pay so little tax! They're so much richer, but they just don't pay! I am beginning to shift my mind on things, maybe the Catholic church isn't doing much good to France. Before supper, I went out to do my errands as usual, trying to find something to feed my family and looking for any affordable bread. On the way, I bumped into Renée Necoy, the milkmaid and chatted with her. We were talking about the march to Versailles. Now that the king and queen moved to Paris, all the citizens have been gossiping about them. After talking to Renee, I was passing by the the tavern of Madeleine and I saw this person with a funny look. I was going to buy a bottle of beer for John, but I felt like I could get him another time. I am having much difficulty feeding my children and keeping up with everything! The prices are going through the roof and the income hasn't increased even a bit! I really do hope that things get better. Robespierre has been talking lots of nonsense and new ideas to us that do all, I think influence us. John and I have been talking about that, discussing things and deciding what we should do for sure. For John and I, and I think for lots of other Parisians, the church's wealth has been bothering us. The wealth of Louis XVI as well as the church. They are so much fancy with their platefuls of bread, food, meat and the queen, she just spends to much on herself! We all are very angry, although John and I are trying not to be frantic. We are lucky that John works for the queen and king. We do get a little more money than others. My neighbors didn't have a bit of food for 3 days! None of her working family has eaten anything! When will this terrible crisis end?

student wiki: milkmaid, midwife, tavern keeper other students: wealth of church wealth of Louis XVI

Journal #3

Dear Journal,
I guess I can safely say that our king Louis XVI is no longer a king in our hearts. He is no one for France knows. He may be the king, but people seem to be like Napoleon more. He seems like a very strong man. He has won many battles and taken over many countries. He seems to be very headstrong, although his appearances don't seem so much. He is short and chubby. My overall life is going okay. John and I are still trying to hold onto our income and supporting our 6 children of ours. I am still lucky to have something for my family. I know my neighbor's 6 months old baby just died due to starvation. God bless the sweet baby and I pray dearly that my babies don't die. I will not know what to do then. I cannot bear babies dying. Just thinking about this makes me so very much awful. I stopped by the tailor to get John's shirt sewed and Léon Fortescue and I talked about Napoleon and our opinions. Afterwards, I also went to the blacksmith to get my knife sharpened. Jean-Baptiste Moreau was very busy and I know he is hard working. When I went home, I cooked supper as I tried to get Frank and Isabel to sleep. When John came, we all ate supper and talked for a while. Life is fairly okay to be honest. Except we women want equal rights like men! I've been wanting that for a long time, but now, that's all I talk about with my neighbors. I really do wish women to get education! As for taxes, although Napoleon made the tax issues a lot more better for us, we all still think it's too much tax and the tax we've been paying for so long seems like enough money to buy the whole entire world! I am very curious to what is going to happen to us and our new leader Napoleon.



Other Students : tailor blacksmith Student Wiki: http://kisworldhistory.wikispaces.com/Women+and+the+Revolution

You've missed the point of the hyperlinks connecting to other students' journals or wiki articles -- they are supposed to be integrated into YOUR diary!

The image of "Rosy the Riveter" is a recognizable WWII figure, so quite inappropriate.

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