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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.

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

I had friends. The idea of being forever separated from them and from all their troubles is one of the greatest sorrows that I suffer in dying. Let them at least know that to my latest moment I thought of them.

No, do not love me, it is better to give me death!

Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.

I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, which can only apply to felons, but rather to finding your brother again...I seek forgiveness for all whom I know for every harm I may have unwittingly caused them...Adieu, good, gentle sister...I embrace you with all my heart as well as the poor, dear children.

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!

I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.

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

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.

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

Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father.

And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.

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