Marie Antoinette — "There will be massacres in the name of revenge. There will be massacres to gain …"

There will be massacres in the name of revenge. There will be massacres to gain twenty-four hours in order to have time to escape. Everyone is armed. Things will be in a deplorable state, and crime and murder will enter into people's houses and no citizen will be assured of surviving from one day to the next.
Marie Antoinette — Marie Antoinette Early Modern · French queen, executed

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Letter to her brother Leopold II, describing her fears about the Revolution

Date: 1791

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