Struggling to disguise her happiness over her first pregnancy, Marie Antoinette quipped with her husband, King Louis XVI:
“Your Majesty, I feel compelled to register a complaint against one of your subjects, a brash one, who gives himself permission to give me kicks in my womb.”
Vicente Vega, Diccionario ilustrado de frases célebres y citas literárias (Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1955), 405. (Nobility.org translation.)
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