Tribulation first makes one realize what one is.

Tribulation first makes one realize what one is.

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!

Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.

No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.

I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.

Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine