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Reflections on the French Revolution, by Edmund Burke

Harvard Classics
Harvard Classics
Episode • Aug 11, 2021 • 36m

When the people of Paris howled because they had no bread to eat, Queen Marie Antoinette exclaimed: "Well, then, let them eat cake!" Such an attitude hastened the revolution. (Volume 24, Harvard Classics)

French royal family imprisoned, Aug. 10, 1792.

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