My name is Henri Chevrolet and I am a farmer from the Third Estate. My family and I lived through the French Revolution. I documented my life and the extreme events that happened during this time and my view on them in my journals below.  Enjoy!

The revolution led to many changes for France and its people. For one, we got the Declaration of the Rights of Man, France’s first constitution, by the powerful perseverance of those of the Third Estate. This affected all three Estates by taking away the unfair privileges the Church and Nobles had and gave lower class people, like my family and myself, the right to vote and so much more! As well as that, we no longer had an official monarch or the royal family. Even more, a new feeling of fear spread across my town and even society. The fear of being taken and executed in time when so many were.

So many things stayed the same or similar both before, during, and after our revolution. The similarities between the King and Napoleon are the most obvious. Even though Napoleon isn’t an official monarch, he has power much like the Kings and uses it similarly too. Less obvious is the suffering we still experience. Although, it is a different kind of suffering than the king’s time when we were hungry and overworked. Now, we suffer through the mourning of those lost in the Reign of Terror and throughout the revolution.