Marie Antoinette Quote by Lea Wait

“Not one of the European rulers would put himself about in the attempt to save Marie Antoinette, so that Mercy scornfully declared: “They would…

— Stefan Zweig

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…

— Marie Antoinette

“The Bastille, where I live, is best known as the site where the infamous prison was seized and ransacked by the masses, igniting the…

— David Lebovitz

“We think of 1789 as the date of the French Revolution, and the storming of the Bastille as its defining event. Yet as late…

— Mike Jay

“During the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that France had boasted of in…

— Baroness Orczy

“The French Revolution gave history its first instance of modern leftist illiberalism -- an embrace of tyranny in the name of the people. All…

— Kim R. Holmes

“It is a proof of the divergence of the tendencies of the socialist and the bourgeois pictures of history—and from now on there will…

— Edmund Wilson

“Even then, she still held a secret passion for Mozart. When he died in 1791, her grief made her provoke the people into starting…

— Yasutaka Tsutsui

“Lightly, caressingly, Marie Antoinette picked up the crown as a gift. She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for…

— Stefan Zweig

“Sometimes a revolution turns into an actual government, or at the very least an actual way of life that contrasts with days past like…

— Kelsey Brickl

“July is a bad month for revolutionaries. In France, Robespierre was executed in July; in Russia, five eminent Decembrists, who had revolted against Nicholas…

— Edvard Radzinsky

“Lightly, caressingly, Marie Antoinette picked up the crown as a gift. She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for…

— Anonymous