Marie Antoinette:

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.

— Marie Antoinette Early Modern

French queen, executed

Context

Attributed to her at her trial

Date / Period

1793

Source

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