“O death, why art thou so long in coming?”

—  Robert-François Damiens

Attributed last words
Source: Frederic Rowland (1900). The Last Words (Real and Traditional) of Distinguished Men and Women. Troy, New York: C. A. Brewster & Co.

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French domestic servant and attempted assassin 1715–1757

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