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=The Diary of Jacques LesPantalons= ====Jacques LesPantalons was a poor habitant who lived the simple life of a country farmer on a seigneurie on Ile d'Orléans near Québec city. He had a basic education which gave him the ability to record the events of his daily life as well as his thoughts, hopes and dreams.====

====It has been another hard day of taking care of the crops. We started out at dawn again and did not break our fast until the sun was high in the sky. Stupid Matilde! Again she burned the bread, and it was hard and black. She says the other women push her out of the way when she tries to take the bread out of the seigneur's outdoor oven that we must share with the other habitants. Well, that's the way of the world! You must struggle to survive. However, I could not stay mad at her because when I got home she had made me a fine meal of eels she had caught today in the river. Nobody fries up an eel like my Matilde.====
 * ====Dear Diary,====

||= Women were responsible for baking the bread. It was baked in an outdoor oven supplied by the seigneur ||
 * ====I'm looking forward to this weekend, as we will be going into town. Matilde has saved up some money from selling extra vegetables she has grown, and we will finally buy some sugar and spices. We will take our canoe down river and land at the docks of Quebec. I love the action in the Lower Town. The many merchants have their axes, guns, cloth and brandy on display. I know I can afford none of these; nonetheless, I love to browse. Matilde loves to wander up the hill to see the houses of the wealthy merchants and landowners in the Upper Town. These beautiful, stone buildings are palaces compared to the simple piece-sur-piece wooden shacks in which we live. Matilde likes to walk past the home of our seigneur, Monseigneur Laval, and utter a quiet curse under her breath. She hates the fact that every year we must give him a few hens and a bushel of wheat. But then she enters the cathedral across the square and prays forgiveness for her sins.==== ||= [[image:Quebec_Lowertown.jpg width="208" height="274" align="center"]] ||
 * ||= The narrow streets of the Lower Town of Quebec were lined with shops filled with goods from around the world brought by ship to the port at Quebec. ||
 * ||= The narrow streets of the Lower Town of Quebec were lined with shops filled with goods from around the world brought by ship to the port at Quebec. ||

I saw Sandrine Samuel today. She was sad. ||  || I saw Stephanie Beaumont today. ||  ||
 * Dear Diary,
 * Dear Diary,

Dear Diary, I met a Guy de Pasdenom in Quebec today.

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