"The ministers and the Jacobins are making the……" — Marie Antoinette
"The ministers and the Jacobins are making the king declare war tomorrow on Austria. The ministers are hoping that this move will frighten the Austrians and that within three weeks we will be negotiating (God forbid that this should happen). May we at last be avenged for all the outrages we have suffered from this country!"
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Marie Antoinette
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24 Quotes by Marie Antoinette
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Let them eat cake.
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There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
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I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and…
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No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a…
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Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are…
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And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.
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Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father.
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Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to…
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If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.
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I have come, Sire, to complain of one of your subjects who has been so audacious as to kick me…
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I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.
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I am terrified of being bored.
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