Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

Responding to the priest who had accompanied her to the foot of the guillotine, who had whispered, "Courage, madame! Now is the time for courage." Quoted in Women of Beauty and Heroism (1859) by Frank B. Goodrich, p. 301.

Courage! The moment when my ills are going to end is not the moment when courage is going to fail me. | To the juror, Abbé Girard, shortly before her death, quoted in Marie-Antoinette a la Conciergerie (du ler août au 16 octobre 1793) 2nd edition (1864) by M. Émile Campardon | Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me. | As quoted in Marie Antoinette (2008) by Jane Bingham, p. 39

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