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Quotation from The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood by Charles Perrault
“execute your orders, and then I shall go and see my children, my poor children, whom I so much and so tenderly loved”
The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, The ogress queen mother, trans. Robert Samber, revised by J. E. Mansion
Believing her children already dead, the young queen stretches out her neck to the clerk of the kitchen.
Citation: "execute your orders, and then I shall go and see my children, my poor children, whom I so much and so tenderly loved" — Charles Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, The ogress queen mother, trans. Robert Samber, revised by J. E. Mansion. (id perrault-sleeping-beauty-q4)
Portrait: Portrait de Charles Perrault par Charles Le Brun (détail), Charles Le Brun, Public domain.
