When arrested she had "An Address to the French People" (and her baptismal certificate) pinned to her bodice: "How long, oh, unhappy Frenchman, are you to suffer this trouble and disunion? Too long have scheming men and scoundrels put their ambition ahead of public interest. Why, unhappy victim of these disturbances, do you tear out your heart and destroy yourself to establish this tyranny on the ruins of desolated France?... Oh, my country! Your misfortunes break my heart; I can only offer you my life, and I thank heaven I have the freedom to dispose of it." She said, later, "I have killed one man so that 100,000 will live."
When arrested she had "An Address to the French People" (and her baptismal certificate) pinned to her bodice: "How long, oh, unhappy Frenchman, are you to suffer this trouble and disunion? Too long have scheming men and scoundrels put their ambition ahead of public interest. Why, unhappy victim of these disturbances, do you tear out your heart and destroy yourself to establish this tyranny on the ruins of desolated France?... Oh, my country! Your misfortunes break my heart; I can only offer you my life, and I thank heaven I have the freedom to dispose of it." She said, later, "I have killed one man so that 100,000 will live."
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