古德明英语军事小故事：王妃之死(中英对照)
古德明《征服英语》之英语军事故事，古德明，香港英语教育作家，他开了一个《征服英语专栏》，在专栏中专门用英语写了世界近代史上的军事小故事，用英语讲述历史中那些惊心动魄的战争。王妃之死
during the french revolution, the principality of monaco was annexed by the french republic in 1793, and the beautiful princess monaco became one of the many victims of the revolution.
on the morning of her execution, after having in vain endeavoured to procure a pair of scissors, she broke one of the panes from the window that was in her room, and with a fragment of the glass sawed off her hair, which she delivered to a confidential friend, to be kept for her children. she then took a pot of rouge, and with the utmost deliberation applied some of it to each of her cheeks, saying in explanation that if she should happen to have a moment of weakness, the populace at least should not have the satisfaction of perceiving it.
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