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==="Let them eat cake!"===
 
==="Let them eat cake!"===
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[[Marie Antoinette]]'s "Let them eat cake" was almost certainly never uttered.  The phrase was likely invented by anti-monarchist revolutionaries seeking to have Marie and Louis XVI executed.
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[[Marie Antoinette]]'s "Let them eat cake" was almost certainly never uttered.  The phrase was likely invented by anti-monarchist revolutionaries seeking to have Marie and Louis XVI executed.  Moreover, even if it was uttered, it would have made sense because there was a shortage of bread and cake was a rational substitute.
    
===Columbus sets out to discover America===
 
===Columbus sets out to discover America===
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