| "Marie Antoinette was neither the great saint of royalism nor yet the great whore of the Revolution, but a mediocre, an average woman; not exceptionally able nor yet exceptionally foolish; neither fire nor ice; devoid of any vigorous wish to do good and of the remotest inclinantion to do evil; the average woman of yesterday, today and tomorrow; lacking impulse towards the daimonic, uninspired by the will to heroism, and therefore (one might fancy) unsuited to be the heroine of a tragedy." - Stefan Zweig |
