The Bourgeoise
            
             I am Jacques, a member of the Bourgeoise. I like the majority of my class, am a skilled professional. It is the late 1700's and France is about to undergo significant change. I am going to look at aspects of my life in order to determine whether or not the French Revolution was really revolutionary.
             First off I will discuss my life during the Old Regime. I was of the upper middle class, yet had no considerable political power. We are very well educated but, we were unable to advance in social class. This means that we will become unhappy overall because this is unfair to our entire class. We, being the educated, should have more of a say in all aspects of the community including politics.
             When the Declaration of the Rights of Man was written we expected our taxes to be lowered. Since we are skilled we should have better opportunities to prosper. We expect to see the King to have less power or even better, removed from power. We would like to see vote by head count instead of by class. We want to see suffrage and the natural rights of man. We need to have some control of or strong political influence. We need to be able to acquire property based on how well we are educated, how important our job is, how hard we work, and just because we are able to buy things in order to pursuit happiness.
             I think that the women are trying to establish strong family morals and are making marriage a social contract. I also think that they are trying to get their rights equal to the men which is fair, but the timing is very convenient for them. They are taking advantage of the changes going on and in a sense, they are tacking on their needs and wants to what we are trying to do. They know that there is no way we could deny them their rights and still expect all of our rights.
             The Republic of Virtue has become too revolutionary. They are trying to control us during wartime. There are price limits o...