Marie Antoinette quotes

Marie Antoinette was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution, renowned for her extravagant lifestyle and controversial reputation. Her lavish spending and perceived indifference to the public’s suffering fueled widespread resentment. She became a symbol of royal excess and was ultimately executed during the Revolution. Here are 17 of her quotes:

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.

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There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

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Let them eat cake.

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If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.

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Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.

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No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.

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I have come, Sire, to complain of one of your subjects who has been so audacious as to kick me in the belly.

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I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.

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We had a beautiful dream and that was all.

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No harm will come to me. The Assembly is prepared to treat us leniently.

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The King of Prussia is innately a bad neighbor, but the English will also always be bad neighbors to France, and the sea has never prevented them from doing her great mischief.

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We made our entrance into Paris. As for honors, we received all that we could possibly imagine; but they, though very well in their way, were not what touched me most. What was really affecting was the tenderness and earnestness of the poor people, who, in spite of the taxes with which they are overwhelmed, were transported with joy at seeing us.

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We had a beautiful dream and that was all. The interest of my son is the only guide I have, and whatever happiness I could achieve by being free of this place I cannot consent to separate my self from him. I could not have any pleasure in the world if I abandoned my children.I do not even have any regrets.

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In a month's time, I shall be able to give your Majesty news of the Comtesse de Provence, for the marriage is fixed for May 14th; they had prepared many fetes for this marriage, but now they are economising in them for want of money.

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Madame d'Adhémar, here is another missive from my unknown. Have you not heard people talking again of the Comte de St.--Germain?... This time, the oracle has used the language which becomes him, the epistle is in verse; it may be bad, but it is not very cheering. You shall read it at your leisure...The unknown says the same as you do; but who is wrong or right?'

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