Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette, an Archduchess of Austria, was the fifteenth and second youngest child of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor and Empress Maria Theresa...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionRoyalty
Date of Birth2 November 1755
CityVienna, Austria
CountryFrance
children left mother suffer took
I was a queen, and you took away my crown, a wife, and you killed my huband, a mother, and you took my children away from me. All I have left is my blood. Take it. but do not make me suffer long.
I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
pregnancy complaining birth
I have come, Sire, to complain of one of your subjects who has been so audacious as to kick me in the belly.
cake
Let them eat cake.
country kings war
The ministers and the Jacobins are making the king declare war tomorrow on Austria. The ministers are hoping that this move will frighten the Austrians and that within three weeks we will be negotiating (God forbid that this should happen). May we at last be avenged for all the outrages we have suffered from this country!
children father farewell
Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father.
trouble moments failing
Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.
brother children heart
I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, which can only apply to felons, but rather to finding your brother again...I seek forgiveness for all whom I know for every harm I may have unwittingly caused them...Adieu, good, gentle sister...I embrace you with all my heart as well as the poor, dear children.
giving give-me
No, do not love me, it is better to give me death!
revolution painful aids
I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.
politics times-of-crisis importance
In times of crisis, it is of utmost importance to keep one's head.
family share intimate
one's enjoyment is doubled when one can share it with a friend - and where can one find a more affectionate, a more intimate friend than in one's own family?
would-be unhappiness
Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.
cake wife people
Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.