May the last king be strangled in the bowels of the last priest  

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"Et ses mains ourdiraient les entrailles du prêtre,

au défaut d’un cordon pour étrangler les rois.[1]

are two lines from the poem "Les Éleuthéromanes" by Denis Diderot.

English: And his hands would plait the priest's entrails, for want of a rope, to strangle kings. A variant translation is "His hands would plait the priest’s guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings."

It has been translated in English since the end of the 18th century.[2] A common translation is "May the last King be strangled in the bowels of the last Priest."

There is a second different version, also attributed to Diderot and according to this source[3] , to the same poem:

Et des boyaux du dernier prêtre
Serrons le cou du dernier roi.

(Let us strangle the last king

with the guts of the last priest.)

However, it cannot be found in most versions of that poem.

Ultimately the quote is from Jean Meslier, a French atheist priest, famous for his Testament (1725), of which Diderot published extracts.

Meslier

"je voudrais qeu le dernier des rois fut entrangle avec les boyaux du dernier pretre"[4]

or

"Je voudrais, et ce sera le dernier et le plus ardent de mes souhaits, je voudrais que le dernier des rois fût étranglé avec les boyaux du dernier prêtre."

English translation:

"I would like — and this would be the last and most ardent of my wishes — I would like the last of the kings to be strangled by the guts of the last priest" [5]"