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64 sats \ 12 replies \ @TomK 29 Aug 2024 \ on: When People Can't Afford Dollar Stores, We Have A Problem econ
Is it time to unpack the quote from Madame de Pompadour?
I'm not familiar with it? Not "Canada is only good for furs" one?
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This fine lady responded to a servant's remark that the people were revolting because they were hungry by saying: if they have no bread, let them eat cake.
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That's historically not the case. People attribute the quote to her, though.
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and she also said after a defeat of the French army at a banquet: after us, the deluge
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I think her Dad said that, technically. Louis the something or another.
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Let's not argue about details. Those were fiat kings, too. All of them
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History is a little more than simply "arguing about details".
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Whom do You tell that....
This fine lady responded to a servant's remark that the people were revolting because they were hungry by saying: if they have no bread, let them eat cake.
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Oh yes. I didn't know that was her. I always think of that as Marie Antoinette. Were they the same person?
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Same person
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I laughed out loud literally
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