“Let them eat cake.”
These famous words are often attributed to Marie Antoinette who (equally famously) eventually lost her head over her inability to read a room.
France’s last queen may or may not have actually uttered the phrase – in response to news of the exorbitant price of bread – before meeting Madame La Guillotine in 1793, but the words continue to resonate.
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