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Marie Antoinette: I was a...

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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.

Source: Remark at the revolutionary tribunal, 14 Oct 1793.
-- Marie Antoinette, (Nov 2 1755-1795), Austrian ruler; She was the Queen Consort of Louis XVI of France remembered as being frivolous, imprudent, prodigal and an enemy of reform.


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