Thread: Coakley Is Out--brown Wins
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Old 01-25-2010
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Originally Posted by randolph View Post
As the French Princess Marie Antoinette supposedly said when told the peasants were starving "let them eat cake"
The operative word here being "supposedly." According to the following sources Marie Antoinette never did say this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake

If you don't like wikipedia then how about the following two sources

http://ask.yahoo.com/20021122.html

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/l...-eat-cake.html

Or should anyone so desire just do an internet search on the phrase "let them eat cake."
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