Time For Change and Revolution

My dear people of Paris, as a writer that had influenced the birth of the United States and as one of your fellow citizens, I am deeply concerned about your situation and understand what is happening to you. I have thought about it quite profoundly and have found only one possible, working solution. The inequalities of the Old Regime and the country’s growing economical problems have led me to believe and confirm that the only necessary change to Paris and all of France is a revolution that will consent to a lasting constitution.

This three-estate system must be abolished for it is far from equal. The First and Second Estates are truly the servants and slaves of the devil himself because they create only a meager two percent of this country, yet they own three-tenths of all the land owned by France. Meanwhile, we, the Third Estate, compose of ninety eight percent of the total French population, that is approximately twenty-seven million people, but we only own seventy percent of all the land. If this is not erroneous and absurdity, my friends, then I do not know the meaning of cruelty, injustice, and demonic malevolence. Yes, I know that I am a newspaper owner and part of the middle class of this Third Estate, something we call bourgeoisie, but do you really think I enjoy seeing my fellow rural peasants and urban workers starving, helpless, and alone? Not even an animal would want that, only someone with no heart. Let me assure you that I have a heart, one that is compassionate to my unfortunate compatriots. For instance, your wages are too little much less affordable for heavy taxes, feudal dues, and daily survival while the first two classes live extravagantly with high rankings and professions. It brings fury and mournful ...

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...actions to pass and power for each branch. Once more, political and economical disasters like unbalanced hierarchies and bankruptcies will never become a French reality ever again. As a result, this dream I have illustrated can become a reality as it has for the Americans if we only follow their footsteps, which can only mean a revolution and constitution.

Indeed, a change needs to be made in our country of France, which is a revolution that cannot be avoided and a constitution that must happen. It is too late to go back. We must live the present and act for the future or die. We must fight for an independence of equality, justice, and liberty. Consequently, lead, follow, or get out of the way. If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately. These are the times that try men’s souls. Remember, the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.