Originally Posted by Grumble

The Queen from Alice in Wonderland is responsible for the "Off with their heads" quote but it was poor Marie Antoinette who had that fate befall her.

Historians believe that Marie Antoinette never said "let them eat cake" when informed by her courtiers that the people protesting outside her palace were doing so because they were too poor to buy bread.

Marie Antoinette was called Madame Deficit and blamed for the country's financial problems. It is true that she enjoyed a lavish lifestyle; her mother wrote to warn her that "a queen can only degrade herself by this sort of heedless extravagance in difficult times." But Marie Antoinette was not quite as foolish and spoiled as the public believed. It certainly is not true that she said "Let them eat cake" when told that people were starving. As a woman and a foreigner she made a convenient scapegoat for the nation's problems, and it seemed that no slander against her was too wild to be widely believed.

In October Marie Antoinette, now called "the Widow Capet," was tried and, like her husband, convicted of treason and sentenced to be guillotined. On October 16, 1793 she was taken through the streets of Paris in an open cart. She maintained her dignity to the end. On the scaffold she accidentally stepped on the executioner's foot, and her last words were, "Monsieur, I ask your pardon. I did not do it on purpose."

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Poor woman had enough trouble being mixed up with King Louis XVI, please do not let her get involved with King George W