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Quotes About Antoinette

A frequent charge made against "Antoinette" was that she was bathed in the blood of the French people; the truth of it was, of course, exactly the other way round.
~ Antonia Fraser
Provence and Artois will be back. Antoinette. She will resume her state. The priests will be back. Children now in their cradles will suffer for what their fathers and mothers did.' Marat leaned forward, his body hunched, his eyes intent, as he did when he spoke from the tribune at the Jacobins. 'It will be an abattoir, an abattoir of a nation.
~ Hilary Mantel
Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.
~ Colin Quinn
No Hapsburg princesse could legitimize a woman of unguarded morals. If du Barry had possessed any sense, she would have seen that she was the mistress of the past while Antoinette was the princesse of the future.
~ Michelle Moran
Ingrid shrugged...like Marie Antoinette hearing about the starving peasants.
~ Peter Abrahams