“There might be more to the universe than any one religion could explain.”
Source: Daughter of Moloka'i
“Kings who become prisoners are not far from death.”
Source: Marie Antoinette: The Journey
“We dug the asparagus, and tonight Aunt Charlotte cooked it for me herself with butter and melted cheese. I ate a whole plateful and drank half the brown jug of sweet milk. Then I had two slices of the thick coarse-grain bread that Aunt and the nuns make fresh every day.”
“What is bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.”
“Looking without passion is always a good plan where history is concerned. But is it really possible with regard to the career and character of Marie Antoinette?”
Source: Marie Antoinette: The Journey
“Erst im Unglück weiß man wahrhaft, wer man ist.”
Source: Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
“It is in misfortune that you realize your true nature.”
“Even when faced with unspeakable loss, Marie Antoinette tackled her difficulties as she always had - by choosing costumes that emphasized her resilience of spirit.”
Source: Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
“I am human, a woman with a living, beating heart first, before I am queen!!”
Source: The Rose of Versailles, Omnibus 2
“On the 5th of October, in pouring rain, some 6,000 working women, fishwives, cleaners, marketstall holders, and prostitutes, marched on Versailles. Their ostensible reason was a rumor that at a welcome banquet given for the Flanders Regiment, newly arrived at the palace, the tricolor cockade had been trampled underfoot (...) armed with scythes, pikes, and any other weapons they could lay their hands on, they marched straight to the National Assembly, shouting their slogans and screaming for bread (...) In the early hours of the next day, the king and queen were awakened by furious shouts of, "mort à la femme Autrichienne", death to the Austrian woman.”
Source: France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle