Marie Antoinette

My mind is at peace.

I embrace you all.

Be brave.

I have suffered much.

I am a queen, and I will die as one.

My only true friends are my children.

I trust in God.

I wish for silence.

I may not be a political genius, but I have eyes and I see.

It is my duty to give to the poor and make the miserable happy.

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.

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

Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it.

I was born to be a queen, but I am now destined to be a martyr.

I pardoned my enemies; I loved my people and they turned against me.

In this place, I stop being a queen to become myself.

Remember, they won't use a grain of poison against me. The Brinvilliers are not from this century: we have slander, which is much better to kill people; and it is through it that I will be killed.

The people have been deceived; they have been cruelly deceived, but it is neither by my husband nor by me.

Oh my God, if we have committed faults, we have certainly expiated them.

It is quite certain that in seeing the people who treat us so well despite their own misfortune, we are more obliged than ever to work hard for their happiness.