trends.

We peasants know nothing of anything more fancy than

bread, though all the sugar would rot off our teeth and

plump up our stomachs. Our clothes are in rags as we

scrape up the last bit of wheat, the harsh winter giving us

the struggle of our lives. We have no King. He sits away

in his castle, ceremonies constant and content as we strug-

gle to survive in our own, cold homes. The Queen wastes

money on one time clothes, while we sit in the same rags

that we’ve had since the day we were born. They have

everything, while we have nothing.

Fancy. Majestic. Ele-

gant. That’s how the

entire palace and life is

like for King Louis

XVI and Queen An-

toinette. They can eat

everything they want,

from the most sugar

filled delicacies to the

most perfect bread to

the best of corn. They

can dress in anything:

silk, cotton, fur, wool,

leather. There are no

limits to what the King

and Queen of France

have. Within the Palace

of Versailles, there are

many extravagant and

elegant rooms, beauti-

ful and expensive deco-

ration, and the best of

portraits and lighting.

They have everything

they need within that

castle, everything and

anything anyone could

ever want. They have to

have the best, after all.

They were royalty, and

apparently no one

should defy royalty,

especially when it

comes to the King and

Queen of France.

King Louis XVI is al-

ways at the dinner table,

filling himself up with

bread and cakes and

meat. The bread is

freshly baked and warm,

nothing could better it.

The cakes are only the

best, filled with exotic

sugar that came from the

New World. The meat

was warm and recently

slaughtered, all the ani-

mals plump and perfect

for their Dear King.

Thanks to Marie Antoin-

ette, their clothes and

royal jewelry amount

grew exuberantly. She

wastes her money on the

latest fashion, with the

tightest of corsets and

most royal of dresses.

Her shoes always

shined, clacking upon

the polished stone

floors. Her hats are as

tall as horses, her hair

wrapped up and braided

and stretched beyond

comprehension. She

always spent her money

on hats and hair styles,

never once stopping to

consider how much debt

France would have to

pay for her silly fashion

King and Queen’s Lifestyle

By: Amanda Hulsey

France Dai ly News

FRENCH REVOLUTION AUGUST 4 , 1789

VOLUME I , ISSUE 1

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When most people

think or talk about the

Palace of Versailles

they will say things

like, “Oh yeah, that’s

where the King Louis

XIV lives” or “That

place is just so beauti-

ful”. I can tell you that

I do not think of the

Palace of Versailles

like that at all; I think

that Versailles is a

waste of the tax

money that I pay to

the king. I am from

the Third Estate and

all members of this

estate would agree

with me, we all don’t

have a lot of money

and for us to have to

pay so many taxes to

the king and to see it

wasted on something

that does not benefit

us in any way is

something that we

don’t want to see.

Versailles is just a

place for the king to

get away and to avoid

people like us. He is

taxing us and has no

idea what bad conditions we are in. People are dying because

they cannot pay for food to eat and people are losing their

homes. If you ask me I think that something should be done

about this; the king should not be able to rule outside of where

he cannot see how this affects the majority of the people in his

kingdom. To fix this it is going to take the support of almost

all of the Third Estate, we are going to have to force the king

to come back to Paris and rule from here. This should be able

to fix the negative effects of his taxing and they will hopefully

be lowered.

THE PALACE OF VERSAI LLES

poleon was the one who

invented this rule because

he wanted equal taxes for

everyone. The peasants

also liked him for the same

reason, his meant that eve-

ryone was being taxed the

same. So everyone was be-

ing treated fairly this meant

equal taxes for everyone. If

the middle class where be-

ing taxed fifty dollars then

the peasants were being

taxed fifty dollars. That

makes everyone have the

same amount of say in the

government, or voice. The

peasants were ok with pay-

ing taxes but not that much.

But at least everyone was

paying the same

amount. They also

liked him because he

won almost every bat-

tle he fought. So the

peasants made sure to

support him because

they had the most

amounts of people.

They were about one-

third of the population

so they needed to sup-

port him. The peas-

ants’ point of view of

napoleon was that he

was bad or unfair in

some cases, but fair or

equal with rights in

others. At least napo-

THE PEASANTS AND NAPOLEON

BY: ALEX WOOD

The peasants thought Na-

poleon Bonaparte, was

not fair. The reason they

though napoleon wasn’t

fair because of the Napo-

leonic code. This code

stated that the there will

be equal taxes for all, in-

cluding the nobilities.

That means everyone

paid the same amount.

With the little money the

peasants had they could

hardly pay it and feed

themselves. The common

people or the middle

class and the rich and the

peasants had to pay the

same amount of money

or bread to the king. Na-

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FRENCH REVOLUTION

BOURGEOISIE

EXECUTION

FIRST ESTATE

FRENCH REVOLUTION

GUILLOTINE

JACOBINS

LOUIS XVI

MARIE ANTOINETTE

NAPOLEON

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

REIGN OF TERROR

ROBESPIERRE

SECOND ESTATE

STORMING OF BAS-

TILLE

TENNIS COURT OATH

THIRD ESTATE

VERSAILLES

WOMENS MARCH

WORD SEARCH

clergy and the com-mons the state’s gen-eral had not been as-sembled since 1614 and the third estate the common used the opportunity to declare itself the national as-sembly igniting the French revolution. On July, 1789 violence erupted when Pari-sians stormed Bastille a state prison where they believed ammu-nition was stored. Al-though outwardly ac-cepting the revolution Louis resisted the ad-vice of constitutional monarchists who sought to reform the monarchy in order to save it. He also permit-ted the reactionary plot plotting of the un-

popular queen Marie Antoinette. In October 1789 a mob marched on Versailles and forced the royal couple to move to tuileries; in June 1971 opposition to the royal pair had become so fierce that the two were to flee to Austria. During their trip, Marie and Louis were appre-hended at Vergennes, France, and carried back to Paris. There, Louis was forced to accept the constitution of 1790. The next January, Louis was convicted and con-

demned to death by a narrow majority on Janu-

ary 21, he walked steadfastly to the guillotine

and was executed nine months later, Marie An-

toinette was convicted of treason by a tribunal

and on October 16 she followed her husband to

the guillotine.

THE EXECUTION OF KING LOUIS XVI BY: JOSH TEGANO

One day after being convicted with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French national convention king Louis xvi is exe-cuted by guillotine in the place de la revolu-tion in Paris. Louis as-cended to the throne in 1774 and from the start was unsuited to deal with the severe financial problems that he had inherited from his grandfather king Louis xv. In 1789 in a last ditch attempt to resolve his coun-try’s financial crisis Louis assembled the state’s general a na-tional assembly that represented the three estates of the French people the nobles the

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VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1

Page 1— King and Queen lifestyle

Page 2—Palace of Versailles; The Peasants and Napoleon

Page 3—Exicution of King Louis XIV; Word Find

Page 4—Crossword;

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