The girl with chocolate (from an 18th century painting). Marie Antoinette of Austria, shortly before being guillotined on October 16, 1793, asked for and received one last cup of hot chocolate
Marie Antoinette of Austria , which in truth always showed rather sober tastes at the table, allowed itself as the only luxury for the palate, chocolate (https://www.pilloledistoria.it/2588/storia-moderna/cioccolata-maria-antonietta), which it seems that she just couldn't resist.
The wife of Louis XVI she was so fond of everything cocoa-based, that she always had her trusted chocolatier available, wherever she went.
Tired and tried by a severe imprisonment to the point of cruelty, in the late morning of 16 October 1793 , the ex sovereign of France was led to the gallows.
It is said that the woman, after having satisfied herself with the simple vegetable broths that had been served to her, without too much generosity and kindness, at the Conciergerie, she expressed, shortly before the execution, a wish, fortunately granted to her:to enjoy a last cup of hot chocolate .