Marie Antoinette's last letter to her sister in law, Madame Elizabeth: It is to you, my sister, that I write for the last time. I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death—for such is only for criminals—but to go and rejoin your brother. Innocent like him, I hope to show the same firmness as he did in his last moments. I am calm, as one is when one’s conscience reproaches one with nothing. I feel deep sorrow in leaving my poor children; you know that I lived only for them and for you, my