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tunes have inspired some pity, may your tears fall upon my tomb accompanying the prayers which you will address to Heaven."

The last words of the Princess of Saxony were:

"Oh you who will one day read the story of my life, when a woman is cruelly outraged and is only slightly guilty and gives you such an example, why will you condemn her if your crimes are greater than hers?"

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