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=**Charles Dickens**=

• Born on February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth, England • As a child, Dickens began to read at a high level and also began to write extremely well. • When Dickens was nine years old, his family faced financial trouble. His father had lost his job and they were not able to pay off their debt. • Consequently, Dickens’ father went to prison; the punishment for not being able to pay your debt. • Dickens could no longer attend school and he had to work in a factory in order for his family to get back on its feet financially. • This factory caused Dickens to have extreme emotional troubles because of the way he was abused. Throughout England, many poor children were subjected to abuse like this in workplaces. • When Dickens was seventeen, he became a reporter but later wanted to be an actor, profession that would fit his up-beat, optimistic personality perfectly. • Dickens work as a reporter was valuable to his later career as a novelist. It exposed him to all types of people and social situations. This was also what allowed him to create characters for his novels. • Dickens early life is what gave him and his books such character, and many of his books were based around these situations. • There is not a single one of his works that does not include a character that is based on some one he met or knew in his earlier life. • Charles Dickens died on June 9, 1870. • He suffered a heart attack in his own home in Rochester, Kent.


 * List of Dickens’ Works**
 * Sketches 1836-37
 * Sunday under Three Heads 1836
 * The Village Coquettes 1836
 * The Strange Gentleman 1837
 * __Pickwick Papers 1837__
 * __Oliver Twist 1838__
 * Sketches of Young Gentlemen 1838
 * Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi 1838
 * __Nicholas Nickleby 1839__
 * Sketches of Young Couples 1840
 * Master Humphrey's Clock (The Old Curiosity Shop and
 * __Barnaby Rudge__ 1840-1
 * American Notes 1842
 * __Christmas Carol__ by Charles Dickens 1843
 * Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens 1844
 * The Chimes 1845
 * Cricket on the Hearth 1846
 * Pictures from Italy 1846
 * Battle of Life 1846
 * __Dombey and Son__ by Charles Dickens 1848
 * Haunted Man 1848
 * __David Copperfield__ by Charles Dickens 1850
 * Mr. Nightingale's Diary 1851
 * Child's History of England 1852-4
 * Bleak House by Charles Dickens 1853.
 * Hard Times 1854
 * Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 1857
 * Hunted Down 1859
 * __Tale of Two Cities 1859__
 * Great Expectations 1861
 * Uncommercial Traveller 1861
 * Our Mutual Friend 1865
 * Mystery of Edwin Drood 1870



=The French Revolution= • When? o 1789, a period of time where France was considered to be a crashed society • Causes o The Old Regime • King Louis XIV was an absolute monarch.  Problems • Social Problems • Rebellion against Old Regime • Food was scarce • Population was rapidly growing • Government was not legitimate o Taxes were unfair and unregulated • Royals were “excused” • Government did not provide food • Who? o The French citizens (specifically the third estate) against Louis XIV’s overpowered, absolute government. • What did the people do? o Storming of the Bastille • A house where weapons were kept and prisoners tortured was attacked by rebels on French Independence Day o Nobles went against Lois XVI and he is overthrown and there is no more monarchy o Third Estate is demanding that the clergy pays taxes like they do. The Third Estate is becoming radical about these unfair laws • Major Events o 1789--- May 5: Estates General assemble at Versailles • June 17: National Assembly declared • June 20: Tennis-Court Oath • July 12-14: Paris revolution and fall of Bastille • August 25: Declaration of Rights of Man & Citizen o 1790--- June 19: Abolition of nobility and titles o 1791--- June 20: King Louis XVI flight to Varennes • August 27: Declaration of Pillnitz • September: Constitution of 1791 voted by Assembly • September 30: Dissolution of Constituent Assembly o 1792--- September 2-6: Prison massacres in Paris • September 21: Meeting of National Convention • December 1792--January 1793: Trial of Louis XVI o 1793-- January 21: Execution of King Louis XVI • March: Revolt of the Vendée Revolutionary Tribunal • April 15-16: Committee of Public Safety set up • June 24: Adoption of Constitution of 1793 • July 10: Danton removed from Committee of Public Safety • July 13: Assassination of Marat • September 4-5: Beginning of the Terror • December 4: Revolutionary Government established o 1794--- February 26-March 3: Laws of Ventôse • March 25: Execution of Hébertists • April 5: Execution of Dantonists • June 10: Law of 22nd Prairial • June-July: The Great Terror • July 26-29: Conspiracy and crisis of Thermidor; fall of Robespierre; execution of Robespierrist members of the Commune of Paris • Outcome o Declaration of the Rights of Men • Get rid of monarch and class system • Declares every man is equal • New government • Conditions o Prices of food were too high for workers to pay o Peasants were taxed and gained no benefits o Frequent Rebellions o Banking system was dependent on loans, which they could not always meet o National Debt was almost up to 2 billion livres (French currency) o • Life Style o Three Class • First Estate  Highest Class • Entire clergy • Second Estate  Middle Class • French Nobility • Third Estate  Lower Class • All the people of France who were neither nobles nor Catholic priests

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