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   augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 22:31:00 JST augustus pugin 🌖
   >While the phrase "Let them eat cake" is commonly attributed to Marie Antoinette, it was coined by 1765, when she was 9 years old and had never been to France, and it was only attributed to her decades after her death. It is unlikely that she ever said it.[2][3][4]
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 22:34:08 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     >A second consideration is that there were no actual famines during the reign of Louis XVI and only two incidents of serious bread shortages, the first in April–May 1775, a few weeks before the king's coronation on 11 June 1775, and the second in 1788, the year before the French Revolution. The 1775 shortages led to a series of riots that took place in northern, eastern and western France, known at the time as the Flour War (guerre des farines). Letters from Marie Antoinette to her family in Austria at this time reveal an attitude largely contrary to the spirit of Let them eat brioche:[13]
     
     >"It is quite certain that in seeing the people who treat us so well despite their own misfortune, we are more obliged than ever to work hard for their happiness. The King seems to understand this truth."
     
     >— Marie Antoinette
     
     she was a good little liberal who loved the poor, but they killed her anyway and then the lies became the legacy. "a titanic hatred of the beautiful and well turned out"
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 22:36:18 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     • of nothing
     @apropos easy mistake to make, we've all done it
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     of nothing (apropos@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 22:36:19 JST of nothing

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     @augustus
     >huh, we murdered this chick after parading the dismembered loins of a female friend outside her prison window
     >now everything's gone to pot and people are making pointed remarks
     yeah she was super bad. kicked babies
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     Jolly Rancher (not_br549@jollyville.net)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 22:37:29 JST Jolly Rancher

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     however, her husband was an imbecile.
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 22:37:29 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     • Jolly Rancher
     @not_br549 he paid dearly for his spineless libcuckery
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 22:47:19 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     • Slow Rodriguez
     @Rocc >"we are more obliged than ever to work hard for their happiness"
     down with this tyrant! the tree of liberty thirsts for her blood!
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     Slow Rodriguez (rocc@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 22:47:20 JST Slow Rodriguez

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     @augustus@shitposter.club sic semper tyrannis :welp:

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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 22:50:11 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     • faust
     @faust perhaps. I think the right-wing reading of the revolution is that the masses crave strong leadership and were disgusted by the miserable weak feminine libcuckery of Louis and consigned him to oblivion until a real chad worthy of France came along, a better kind of monarch.
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     faust (faust@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 22:50:13 JST faust

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     @augustus The ancien regime still had a really terrible system of land management and agriculture, to say nothing of taxation. France would have ended up like spain, a sclerotic society far past its prime, if the revolution and then the napoleons hadn't come to modernize the state.
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     🌲-alist (threalist@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 22:55:56 JST 🌲-alist

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     • faust
     > until a real chad worthy of France came along, a better kind of monarch
     
     Napoleon?
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