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Marie Antoinette
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"Marie Antoinette" Quotes

The life and reign of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, is explored in this biography.

Quotes

Let them eat cake.

Hilaire Belloc

wealthignorance

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Hilaire Belloc

loveemotions

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

Hilaire Belloc

courageperseverance

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

Hilaire Belloc

sufferingloss

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

Hilaire Belloc

close-mindednessopen-mindedness

The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Hilaire Belloc

leadershipadaptability

Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.

Hilaire Belloc

strengthresilience

We leave to others our property; to our children, our names; to posterity, the example of our virtues.

Hilaire Belloc

legacyvirtue