You know history’s famous quotes — but do you understand them?
Marie Antoinette was done dirty. No, that’s not a reference to her beheading at the zealous whims of French revolutionaries. Decapitation by guillotine is over in an instant. Slander, on the other hand, lasts for centuries. As dissidents successfully roiled public fervor against the aristocracy in the late-18th century, they launched a libelous campaign against their well-known queen. Antoinette…
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