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| Marie Antoinette and her children |
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| "Adieu, my good and tender sister. May this letter reach you. Think of me always. I embrace you with my whole heart as I embrace my poor dear children. My God, how heartbreaking it is to leave them forever." |
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| "Poor little thing, you are not what was wanted, bnt you will be no less dear to me. A son would have belonged more particularly to the state - you will be mine; you will have all my care, you will share all my happiness and you will sweeten my suffering." |
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| "When my brother heard this he started screaming and threw himself to my mother's arms begging not to be taken from her. At last my mother agreed to part with her son. We got him up and when he was dressed my mother handed him over to the municipals after bathing him in tears, as if she realised she would never see him again." - Madame Royale |
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| " If I didn't answer, it was because nature cannot answer such a charge brought against a mother. I appeal to all mothers who are here!" |
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| "My son, promise me never to think of avenging my death. You heard what I said? Lift your hand and swear that you will fulfill your father's last request." - Louis XVI |
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