
History in the Making: The Making of History
Lovett or Leave It
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Ike, Who Said This Famous Quote? Let Them Eat Cake?
Ike, who said this famous quote? Let them eat cake. Jean-Jacques Rousseau described a great princess in his 1765 book Confessions that said, let them eat brioche. Bintra's boards crediting Marilyn Monroe with the quote, well behaved women rarely make history or legion are also false. You can thank historian Laurel Thatcher, Ulrich, for that phrase.
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