"I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.]"
"Up to this moment I have been pleased to entrust the government of my affairs to the late Cardinal. It is now time that I govern them myself. You [secretaries and ministers of state] will assist me with your counsels when I ask for them. I request and order you to seal no orders except by my command, . . . I order you not to sign anything, not even a passport . . . without my command; to render account to me personally each day and to favor no one."
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Source: Last words of Louis XVI of France before he was executed by guillotine, January 21, 1793.
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