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| 'LET THEM EAT POLISHED...'
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| 13 May 2012 |
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| CHAIM EVEN-ZOHAR |
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| Looking back some 250 years ago, France's Queen Marie Antoinette (the wife of King Louis XVI of France, who was beheaded), is remembered in history for her infamous words: "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche," generally translated as "let them eat cake." According to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Confessions" (published in 1782), this was the response by a great princess who was told that the peasants had no bread.
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