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…Marie Antoinette
“Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?”
“Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?”
— MARIE ANTOINETTE
Queen of France · 1755 – 1793
The Austrian-born queen consort of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette became a symbol of royal excess during the French Revolution, though the infamous 'let them eat cake' line was never actually hers. She was guillotined in Paris in October 1793, months after her husband.
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