Marie Antoinette — "I wish I had been born a simple country girl."

I wish I had been born a simple country girl.
Marie Antoinette — Marie Antoinette Early Modern · French queen, executed

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Attributed, often cited in accounts of her longing for a simpler life.

Date: c. 1780s

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