Sunday, August 7, 2022

Kristina's response to Count Per Brahe after he asked her/him/them to stay a little longer in Uppsala after the abdication, early June 1654

Source:

Mémoires concernant Christine, reine de Suède, volume 3, page 458, compiled and edited by Johan Arckenholtz, 1759


Kristina's response (translated by Arckenholtz into French from Swedish):

Comment voulez-vous que je reste ici, où peu auparavant j'ai régné en Souveraine, & où je verrois un autre avoir tout le pouvoir en main?

English translation (my own):

How do you want me to stay here, where I reigned as sovereign shortly before, and where I would see another having all the power in his hand?


Above: Kristina.

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