French queen Marie Antoinette’s reputation for excessive spending earned her the nickname “Madame Deficit.” But there’s no proof she ever said the famous line “Let them eat cake!” referring to starving peasants. It may have been said by another noblewoman, or by philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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