
"Let Them Eat Cake"
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What Happened to the Queen of France?
Marie antoinette was the queen of France from 1789 to 1793. She is credited with saying, 'let them eat cake' But there is no evidence that she ever said it or anything like it. The quote almost certainly comes from a seventeenth century book by french philosopher Jean-Jacques jacques.
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