There will be massacres in the name of revenge. There will be massacres to gain twenty-four hours in order to have time to escape. Everyone is armed. Things will be in a deplorable state, and crime and murder will enter into people's houses and no citizen will be assured of surviving from one day to the next.
— Marie Antoinette Early Modern

French queen, executed

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Letter to her brother Leopold II, describing her fears about the Revolution

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1791

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Controversial

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