“Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine” MenMeanLastsFeetLast WordsPardonMarieGuillotinePardon Me Author:Marie Antoinette
“Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.” PeopleWellsKnownWifeBreadCakeAttributesConfessionWell KnownRemarksMarie Author:Marie Antoinette
“I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.” ChildrenLongMotherSufferingWifeBloodHusbandRemainsMy ChildrenQueensMy HusbandCrownsDeprivedMarieGuillotine Author:Marie Antoinette
“Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?” ThinkingYearsEndsMomentsSufferingLosesCourageMarie Author:Marie Antoinette
