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Marie Antoinette: Qu'ils mangent de...

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'Qu'ils mangent de la brioche.' Let them eat cake.

Source: Traditional but wrong attribution [The remark, perhaps apocryphal, was attributed to others much earlier.]
-- Marie Antoinette, (Nov 2 1755-1795), Austrian ruler; She was the Queen Consort of Louis XVI of France remembered as being frivolous, imprudent, prodigal and an enemy of reform.


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