"The King has done everything to avoid civil war, and he is still very much convinced that civil war cannot correct anything, and that it shall, in the end, destroy everything."

"I am afraid of nothing but boredom."

"I was a queen, and you took away my crown; you put me in prison, and I had no family; I was condemned to death, and I had no friend."

"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."

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