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Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette (/ˌæntwəˈnɛt, ˌɒ̃twə-/; French: [maʁi ɑ̃twanɛt]; born Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an Archduchess of Austria, and was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor.

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it is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order.

Change, Know, Mediocre, Nature, Order, Wish

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

Bed Of Roses, Beds, Flower, Fragrant, Love, Roses

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.

1740, Cake, People, Rousseau, Told, Wife

one's enjoyment is doubled when one can share it with a friend - and where can one find a more affectionate, a more intimate friend than in one's own family?

Affectionate, Enjoyment, Family, Intimate, Share

Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.

Down, Everyone, Greatest, Letting, Unhappiness, Would Be

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

Death, Give, Give Me, Giving, Love

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

Bread, Cake, People

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.

Blood, Children, Mother, Queens, Remains

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!

Country, God, Kings, Making, War, Weeks

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Creative, Creativity, Except, Forgotten, Historical, Nothing

I wasn’t raised, I was built.

Built, Raised

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

Audacious, Belly, Birth, Complain, Complaining, Pregnancy

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.

Dying, Forever, Idea, Ideas, Moment, Suffering

Tribulation first makes one realize what one is.

Firsts, Realize, Realizing, Tribulation, Trouble

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.

Brother, Children, Finding, Heart, Seek

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

Aid, Aids, Painful, Revolution, Trust