D+Fishmonger

Name: Claudia Gaston Age: 55 Gender: Female Occupation: Fishmonger Social Class: Third Estate Financial situation: The price of bread has increased and so people are looking for other resources such as fish but she still doesn’t earn almost any profit. In addition, she does not own his own land nor property.

Appearance: She has brown hair and wrinkles all over her face because of her old age. She almost always wears a white band on her head. Her back is slightly crooked as and in addition, she has lost many teeth and has skin diseases since she fishes a lot and has physical contact with fishes.

Location of home and/or business: Ville d' Avray

Habitual locations: She spends great deal of his time selling fish in the commercial center.

Daily routine: She goes to the commercial center and sells the fish captured until late night so that she can receive some profit and goes back home. Sometimes she goes fishing to refill his stocks.

Personality/Quirks/Unique Personality Traits: She is quite welcoming and kind especially to the people visit his fish store. She feels sort of lonely sometimes since she doesnt not have a family.

Past / Family History: Her husband died at the age of 40 because of a serious and common disease and did not have any children.

Family: She does not have any family members alive. Her husband died with a severe disease and did not have any children.

Social relations with your own and other classes: She normally interacts with other fishmongers in his shop area and easily makes some friendship relations with his clients.

Religion: Catholic

Education: She only received some education in her young age but not thoroughly completed it. She can barely read and write.

Style of speaking (i.e. formal, "down-to-earth", crude): She speaks with slangs and normally not formal with her clients and friends.

Main privileges and/or conflicts: She interacts with various types of people but she faces some difficulties economically but since the price of bread is going way too high, she hopes she can sell more fish now.

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Diary Entry #3

June 6th, 1804

Dear Diary, Napoleon Bonaparte has rose to power for a while now. I can see that drastic changes are being made with his new reign such as the new laws. None of this conquering of new lands interests me greatly at the moment, since it does not greatly affect myself. Anyway, that is what I have been hearing by people who pass by my fish shop. Even so, I would applaud Napoleon for one thing; he established the French economy and gave more freedom to the people. In addition, he also made taxes way fairer and so now I can have more profit than before. As a celebration, I gave a super sale today and sold my fish for barely nothing. I even gave some for free. This super sale attracted many customers such as the radical journalist, Christophe Dubois, who clarified my thoughts and doubts of the events that were happening recently. Also, Alaire Depaul came to my shop to buy a whole stock of fishes for his servants. The best part of this job is getting to know various kinds of people. Furthermore, I have been living in the small neighborhood for about 16 years now, and I've been planning to move to other places or maybe other countries since Napoleon has been spreading the French empire. I hope that I get a chance to do so soon by gaining some extra cash since the taxes became lower.

Sincerely, Claudia Gaston

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Diary Entry #2

March 4th, 1789

Dear Diary, Long time since I haven't wrote what has happened in my life. France is changing drastically these days, it is going in what some people call, a revolution. Many things are changing and the price of bread remains high as usual. These days, people are getting killed by the guillotine but I'm still not clear of why. It is also quite a common view to see people starving and it is extremely frustrating to see them like that. I personally try to give as much of my fish when I can, but it is not enough. Since various kinds of people are coming to my fish store in Ville d' Avray, I recently met John Smith, an American diplomat! It was hard at first to communicate with him but just by the fact that he is from another part of the world is incredible! In addition, as I was selling I met a philosophe named Alexander Martins. He introduced me to new ideas I had never thought about before. His ideas relate greatly to what has been happening and I have been learning a lot from him. I extremely enjoy the idea of not having an absolute ruler with all the power and I also want to have a voice even though I am only a fishmonger. I was thinking of having children but I am extremely afraid with what might happen to them. They might suffer from starvation since I can barely feed myself with the high prices of food. In addition, many battles and wars are happening within France and I don't think that is the kind of environment in which I want to raise my children. Everything was going as normal during the day when suddenly, people stole my fish! It was probably people who were desperately hungry but now I don't have much to sell. I might have to go fishing again later this week.

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Diary Entry #1

May 22, 1788

Dear Diary, Today was such a successful day for me! Since the price of bread has been rising these days drastically, people are trying to find other food resources such as fish so a lot of customers came to my shop. Various people such as the a mother of 6, Pénélope Isabel Pierre, and the tavern keeper, Madeleine Gravois came to buy my fish! I even got enough profit today to buy a new fishing rod soon. I also hope that next time I go fishing, I may get a surplus of fishes to sell. These people are going crazy because of the bread crazy so I will take this as a chance for me to sell a lot and gain some extra money. Since I don't have anyone to spend the money with, i'll try to save money to buy some useful tools such as the fishing rod for my shop. These days I have been very lonely and not much social interaction with other people. As a fishmonger with no family members, it is sometimes hard to find a way to interact with new people. Thinking about it, I still have God which is helping me these days by raising my profit and keeping me alive even though I'm getting old. I hope that this success continues throughout this month and maybe even throughout the year! Later on this week I might go visit some of my friends and try to interact some more. At night, I ate some left over fish from my sales today and did some prayers to keep my fish fresh and continue with my economic success these days.

Sincerely, Claudia Gaston



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