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Marie Antoinette didn’t say let them eat cake As the story goes, when Queen Marie Antoinette heard that the French peasants were starving and didn’t have enough bread, she exclaimed “Let ...

France had abolished its monarchy only to find itself under the rule of an emperor. Years later Thomas Jefferson would admit that his own support for the French Revolution was misguided ...

France became a republic in 1792 when they abolished the monarchy in what is known as the French Revolution ... like in the UK today where we have a constitutional monarchy.