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 * There were 3 classes called estates, most of the people were made up of the 3rd class. The estate system was considered unfair
 * Economic and social problems caused the revolution
 * The King of France at the time was King Louis XVI and he was not fit to be king, very young and not prepared to be king of a place in crisis
 * People were starving and didn’t have food, while the king had plenty of bread and kept it all to himself
 * For the people to get liberty and equality they need to revolt and a new class system
 * People start to storm the Bastille, the bakery for the bread, saying they were not going to take it anymore. They would break into houses and crowd around people who had bread and steal it from them
 * Innocent people were getting beheaded everyday with the guillotine, while the crowd would cheer while the person was killed
 * King Louis and his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette sat at there palace and did not know what was going on outside there world of royalty
 * Because of the declaration of right of man there are no more classes or estates and every man is equal
 * The national assembly there is no more king. There is a new government which is constitutional and there is freedom for the press
 * The French were getting annoyed and beheaded King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette
 * A president took over
 * France ended the monarchy by 1792 the republic of France is a republic with no king

 CHARLES DICKENS
 * Quick Backround Facts:**
 * Born: February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth, England
 * Died: June 9, 1870 (of a stroke)
 * Charles married Catherine Hogarth on April 2, 1836. Together, they had 10 children. The youngest, Charles Culliford Dickens, was born in 1837. Edward Bulwer Dickens, the oldest child, was born in 1852!
 * His family was very poor and they were bankrupt. His family was so poor he had to work in a factory and his father went to prison. A few years later he would be free of the factory but still scared for life of the experience he had in the factory.


 * Career:poet,novelist, and journalist**
 * Dickens published over 19 novels and 31 short stories!!
 * Wrote many of his literature from his own experiences
 * Was an expert at journalistic reporting, but also in his book transformed actuality by his imagination.
 * Wrote quickly and worked on more then one novel at a time, sometimes finished right when it was due.
 * Dicken's first __successful__ work, //The Pickwick Papers//, was published in 1836
 * In 1842, Charles traveled to the U.S and Canada, and promoted international copyright. However, in his //American Notes,// he commented adversely about the American way of life.
 * By 1843, //A Christmas Carol//, was printed. This story later became a 3D move experience in the late fall of 2009.
 * 1850- Charles designated himself as editor of the weekly //Household Words.//
 * 1858- Dickens agreed to his first public reading for a salary in London. Unfortunately, Charles and his wife divorced after a sequence of personal problems in this year.
 * 1859- //A Tale of Two Cities// was released and became the most printed original English book[over 200 million copies sold]!

By: Emily Kramer, Ann Tulley, Amelia Stalknecht, and Carly Truglio.

Works Cited "Charles Dickens-Biography and Works. "Literature Networks:Online classic literature,poems and quotes. Essay & Summaries. Web 13 Jan. 2010. .  Kosch, Karen. "The French Revolution." Pascack Valley High School. Hillsdale. 15 Dec. 2009

"[|Charles Dickens]." __The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition__. 2008. //Encyclopedia.com.// 13 Jan. 2010 <[|http://www.encyclopedia.com]>.