Philipe+de+Cascadien+Banker+Martin

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 * __Name:__** Philipe de Cascadien **__Age:__** 30 years **__Gendre:__** male **__Occupation:__** Banker **__Social Class:__** Third Estate **__Financial situation:__** actually wealthy for the Third Estate **__Appearance:__** brown hair, without beard, dark brown eyes, handsome and muscular, tall, slim and healthy. He is much in the bank and has therefore not so much time with his family **__Location:__** Paris, Quartier Arrondissement **__Habitual location:__** his house, the bank and the taverne **__Daily routine:__** He wakes up early in the morning and goes to the bank, he is a director of the bank. He has apointments with the nobles and he negotiates the interest with them for their credits. When he comes home, he cares about his family and his house. **__Personality:__** He is a quiet person and it brings him nothing so quickly from his concept. **__Past:__** wife and two kids. He comes from a family of bankers. **__Family:__** He needs the nobles to survive, but otherwise he hates them because they layer the rest of the the Third like scum. **__Religion:__** None **__Education:__** He enjoyed a good upbringing and education at a banker school **__Style of speaking:__** He speaks in a gentle and polite manner because his job is it to deal with the nobles. **__Language you speak:__** French, Latin and English

=// 1788, July 14th __Diary Entry 1__//=

Today morning it is 7 o´clock, my wife is sleeping silently beside me, I give her a kiss and get out of the bed. I go into the room of my children and look if they are well and give also a kiss to them.I go downstairs to the dining room. The Maid prepared already the breakfast. I sat down and had a good meal. I went to the bathroom and dressed up myself for the bank. I let the coach drive upand drove to the bank. I bought a newspaper on the way to my work to see the news of the day.

Once in the work, my secretary was waiting for me. We discuss the plan of the day with him. After that I had to sign important documents, then I had to calculate the costs for the purchase of a new castle for the nobles. Because of the much cost of the castle, I ´m afraid that I can´t give out the credit for this palace because my bank is in an awkward position which regards the monetary. And also the citizen are not satisfied because they have to pay so much taxes to the nobles. So I don´t know what to do. I just hear a demonstration at my window going past, I must be careful that they do not storm the bank, and claim their already paid taxes. We also constantly hear of unrest in the land.

I went to the taverne to have my lunch. In the afternoon I had a meeting with my client Duke of Chevalier in order to negotiate for a credit and interest. At 5 o´clock I went home to see my family and spend time with them. We took our dinner and from 8 o´clock my wife and me went to the opera. We had a great evening together.

Philipe de Cascadien

1789, July 15 __//**Diary Entry 2**//__ Yesterday, the Bastille was stormed and falled. Whole nation is in turmoil. The nobles are unsatisfied that they don´t get their taxes regularly, because the people don´t want to pay them. One day Didier de Chardot and Pierre de Mouet my good friends came to me in the bank and wanted to know, what shall they do with their jewelery, because in their house they would be stolen and when they would wear them in the publicity they would be killed.

So Didier and Pierre are in a predicament. They ask me if they could get some of their jewelery out of the safe of the bank because when they could change them into money they could pay the content of their employers. When they don´t get their substance they would protest and wouldn´t work, because now the after the revolution has started it isn´t easy to find good employees. The whole nation has nothing in mind as to rebel.

Didier and Pierre go with me to the bank safe and let give them their jewelerys which they can take home with them. As we were in the safe, a human mass stormed into the bank and demolished the whole hall in anger. Pierre, Didier and I entrenched us in the safe so that the people had no possibility to also rob the riches yet. But they were beating against the door that we should come out and give them the jewelerys of the nobles. I thought we would never come out again, but more in the next entry.

Philipe de Cascadien

But then it started to get silent, we could hear only some footsteps, and then a man shouting that we should open the door and come out, nothing would happen to us if we gave up. I slowly went to the door and turned the key. The door was jerkily opened, and we saw the whole devastation. The crowd had pretty devastated everything what wasn´t nailed down. As we came out a statly man was standing in the middle and was shouting allover. I thought he must be the captain of all thees revolutionaries and I was right. He gave orders to carry all belongings from the bank and to put us in chains. In this moment I thought he was joking but his subjects tied us and brought us out on a cart. Then I recogniced that they thought that we were all nobles and wanted all the money from us but we had anything. They did not believed us and so the said that if we wont tell them of our money they would kill us simply. After that they caried on with looting everything what they found. As we drove, I saw my wife and the children come from a side street, I shouted at them that they should get to safety, otherwise they would also be deported yet. Arriving at the prison, Pierre, Didier and were roughly pushed into a prison cell. After some minutes the tall man came and said to us that we are going to be beheaded in seven days and that we shouldn´t try to escape because he would personally take care about ourselves. Later I learned that this man was, Charles Henri Sanson the famous executioner of Paris.
 * //__1789, July 15 and 22 Diary Entry 3__//**

After six very ugly days without real food and water the night came, after this night we should be executed. I didn´t want to think about that yet. I did not even imagine how my children should grow up without a father and my wife shouldn´t know how to survive. My friends and I were making plans how to escape. Break out, we could not, because in front of our door was standing constantly a guard. It was impossible to escape like that. What should we do? I tried to sleep but I can´t. In the morning we woke up by the shouting outside of the building then we were pushed again on a cart and were transported to the execution place. People were throwing things on us or were spitting and my heard was going faster and faster and I was only hoping that my wife was in safety. As we arrived at the place Pierre should be beheaded at first he was already layed down. Suddenly a coach came forward raced, I replied the executioner a blow and shouted to my friends that they should try, through the crowd to come to the coach. The crowd tried to stop us but we could get close to the coach and could jump on it. The mass was trying to catch us but they couldn´t because we were going too fast. Only then we realized that it was a hearse. The driver was commissioned by my wife and took us outside of Paris in a secret hiding place where our families were waiting for us. Everything had been already prepared. We hugged and then we were up in two other coaches which should bring us to the ferry to England, which is in turn a different story.

Philipe de Cascadien

1804, December 2 **//__Diary Entry 4__//** It is a cold winter day, nobody is on the streets and and its blowing a strong winterstorm. We are sitting in the living room around the fireplace drinking a hot chocolate and talking about the past how poor we were and that I nearly was beheaded. When I think in that time, I was young and I had only nonsense in my had and now I am getting grandfather. My oldest son has finished his study and had allready married and now he is getting a child. My other kids, are studying still and I hope that my doughter get the first woman doctor. But here in England we are safe. Today Napoleon had crowned himself to an emperor. As I looked at the newspaper I couldn´t believe my eyes. So a cruel man gets on the throne of France, after he had killed so many peoples with his Ideas of the new big empire France.

He is a small man but with strong ideas and when somebody doesn´t follow his command he is killed at once. So he is very strict. But in wars he has no luck, against England he lost the war and the with the Russians he had signed a peace treaty. I think that in some way the revolution was helpfull because some people started to think but on the other side a lot of people must die. It was a really cruel time but something like that must happend because it couln´t go so on any longer that the poor people were the slaves of the nobles and of the king. It is sometimes hard to accept that it had changed a lot and that there doesn´t exist any Estates anymore. I think in the future France will fight a lot of wars because Napoleon is a fighter and he can´t accept peace. Still some humans need more enlightenment but at all the most people had realized that it is no matter if you are a noble or a poor human because every humans are equal if somebody has more money than the other one but that has to say nothing anymore. We will see what will happen and I am really excited what will happen next in the history of France and the rest of the world. Here in England we can live in freedom and peace and I hope that it wouldn´t change so fast. Maybe it will happen something very new and exciting in the future, nobody knows we will see.

Philipe de Cascadien