D+Marquis

Alaire Depaul

**Name**: Alaire Depaul

**Age**: 30

**Gender**: Male

**Occupation**: Maquis

**Social** **Class**: The Second Estate

**Financial situation**: I am a very wealthy man living in a huge, beautiful palace. I'm everyday nourished with foods that peasants can't even imagine and my hobby is to play with girls. Also, I own a vast amount of lands all over the France.

**Appearance**: I am very attractive. I have dark brown hair, brown eyes. My height is 188 centimeters and I weigh 75 kg.

**Location of home and/or business**: I live in Paris.

**Habitual locations**: I spend most of my time in my palace.

**Daily routine**: I usually wake up at 9:00 AM from my cozy then I eat my breakfast. After my stomach is filled with delicious foods, I walk around my garden. I invite my friends to my palace and we eat lunch together. Then I start to work. I organize my peasants and lands. After I eat my dinner, I go to bed at 9:00 PM.

**Personality/Quirks/Unique Personality Traits**: I'm very nice and gentle. I really love to host a party at my house and invite my friends. However, I'm very sharp to my peasants.

**Past / Family History**: My father and grandfather have been a marquis too. All these wonderful things I am experiencing is all from my ancestors.

**Family**: Only my mother is alive. My father passed away 4 years ago. His wealth was passed on to me when he died.

**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):**

Tailor (Leon Fortescue) : He always makes wonderful suits for me. I don't care how he feels about me, I just like his suits because they make me really stand out. Tavern Keeper (Madeleine Gravois) : I met her on the street when I dropped my handkerchief and she picked it up for me. Although she's not the kind of person I go out with, she was beautiful. I asked her name and found out that she owns a tavern. After that incident, I go to her tavern and have some drink usually when I'm bored. **Religion**: Catholic

**Education**: Very well educated. However, I have no interest in studying.

**Style of speaking (i.e. formal, "down-to-earth", crude)**: I speak neither formally nor crudely. I just speak normal.

**Main privileges and/or conflicts**: There are many women who wants to marry me, but I am not sure who could be my perfect mate.

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


 * "3 American Miniature Portraits: Vallee - Portrait of a Young Man." //3 American Miniature Portraits//. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Dec. 2011. .

= Journal Entries = **Journal Entry #1**

Dear Diary,

Today I held a biggest party ever in my life for celebrating my 30th birthday. Of course I designed my palace with fancy decorations and planned it out. It is always fun to plan out for parties and think about what would entertain people. I invited my friends of friends including **Madeleine**. It has been a long time since I didn't go to her tavern and it was nice to see her staying well. She gave me a handkerchief for my birthday present. It reminded me of our first meeting when she picked my handkerchief for me. Man, she's confusing my mind. Even though I have parties very often, today's party was little special. Maybe because it was my first of 30s birthdays. I'm now on my 30s, I better should start to find my mate. I'm keep on saying this when I have been thinking it since last two years. I wondered if Madeleine could be my mate. I know that she's more than a friend to me but at the same time, I don't want to disappoint my old mother who wants me to marry a daughter of this another marquis. Why do I have to marry a woman from the first estate? I'm not even running out of money or something. I can take care of my woman and I think I should marry who I really love. Ah, I can think of this later, I don't want to waste by birthday time with it. I also invited **Leon** to my party. He should thank me because I complimented that his suits are wonderful and lots of people who came to my party ordered Leon's suit. My maids worked really hard today for my party and are still working. They are preparing for my bed. I should give them extra pay on their pay day and I can imagine their happy faces. I can say that the best moment of today's party was when Madeleine gave me a present. My heart started to beat fast when her hand was in contact with mine. My birthday is almost over. I should go to bed before it's not my birthday anymore.

Yours,Alaire http://www.travelblog.org/Photos/19791

**Journal Entry 2** Dear Diary, Finally the revolution came. People from the Third Estate got enraged for their hunger and finally broke out. I knew something like this would happen but didn't expect they would start a revolution. It seems like people like me in the Second Estate and First Estate are not really paying attention to this yet. However, I am little afraid that they would attack our palaces and that this revolution might limit some of my power. I'm pretty sure other nobles would feel like this too. Therefore, I won't get myself into comfortable position, I will stay awake from their attack. Even though it can be dangerous, today, I went to the pub with my philosophe friend **Alexander Martin.** I wanted to get away from this chaos and enjoy some drink. It's always nice to have a little chat with him. Alexander has logic in his sentences and I learn a lot from him. When I went back home, **Bernard Vigneron** came to my palace. He said he wanted to check me if I was okay. Bernard is a miller who bakes bread. He always finds me with sweet and fresh breads to my palace. Even though he's five years older than me, he's very gentle and kind. He warned me to stay awake before he left. I think I'd better sleep now. Yours,Alaire

http://history.howstuffworks.com/european-history/french-revolution4.htm **Journal Entry 3** Dear Diary, These days I am so stressed out because of Napoleon Bonaparte. France is now under the Napoleon's power. He's trying to reform things that he thought were wrong. One of the reforms I most hate is that he's trying to give equal powers to the people and keep emphasizing that all people are declared equal before law. He even made a code of his own called The code Napoleon. Can't he just stay still? Why is he appearing all of a sudden and abandoning special privileges for nobles like me? This is the way we were born and that is the way poor people were born. Too bad for them! Anyway, today, I was just walking on the street and met a nice woman named **Claudia Gaston**. She is a fishmonger who sells fish in the commercial center. The fishes she was selling were very fresh. I thought my servants would like me if I had bought a whole stock of fishes for them. I immediately purchased them with the money in my wallet and Claudia thanked me very much. I also called a wig maker to my palace today because hair is starting to fall out these days. It is all because of that Napoleon! He is making my hair to fall out when beautiful hair is one of the most important symbols for nobles. That wig makers named was **Gaston Moreau**. He was making the wig as same as my original hair. I noticed right away that he had some skills with it. I think I should sleep early today. Sleep is the best way to release stress. Yours,Alaire http://rheinbund.blogspot.com/2011/01/code-napoleon-precursor-of-modern.html

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