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
courage thinking years
Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
creativity creative historical
There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
cake people bread
If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.
beautiful dream beautiful-dreams
We had a beautiful dream and that was all...
raised built
I wasn’t raised, I was built.
ideas forever suffering
I had friends. The idea of being forever separated from them and from all their troubles is one of the greatest sorrows that I suffer in dying. Let them at least know that to my latest moment I thought of them.
firsts realizing trouble
Tribulation first makes one realize what one is.
bored terrified being-bored
I am terrified of being bored.
would-be unhappiness
Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.
politics times-of-crisis importance
In times of crisis, it is of utmost importance to keep one's head.
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!
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?
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.
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.