Marie Antoinette was guillotined on the 16th October 1793 at the age of thirty seven. Broken and depressed by the terrible ordeal of her imprisonment and separation from her beloved family, the formerly exquisite and carefree Queen of France was old before her time and to some extent her end must have come as a merciful release from the horror that her life had become.
RIP Marie Antoinette.
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sad but true… her death became her release… may she rest in peace…
Let them eat cake! I read her diary in Juvinile version and have a bit more respect for her than I did at first. God Bless all those authors who take their time just to amuse me and all other bookworms! :0)
No, not “Let them eat cake!” She never said that according to historians.