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To: pageonetoo

A recent biographer claims that "Let them eat cake" was actually spoken by Marie-Therese, wife of France's Louis XIV, 100 years before Marie Antoinette, but we couldn't find anything online to corroborate this. Ultimately, we will probably never know who uttered this infamous phrase.

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20 posted on 08/15/2004 6:33:21 AM PDT by pageonetoo (Rush didn't know! Now, we all know! He probably broke the law! But, rushbots don't care! He's Rush!)

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To: pageonetoo

I think it was actually Rousseau who said it first (at least the first documented).

23 posted on 08/15/2004 6:40:09 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)

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