Marie Antoinette

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

Let them eat cake.

I was a queen, and you took away my crown, a wife, and you killed my huband, a mother, and you took my children away from me. All I have left is my blood. Take it. but do not make me suffer long.

'Qu'ils mangent de la brioche.' Let them eat cake.

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.

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

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

Reply to inquisitors, October 1789. I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.

Remark at the revolutionary tribunal, 14 October 1793. 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.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

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

Remark on way to guillotine, 16 October 1793. Courage I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end