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A frivolous life: Marie Antoinette, too clueless to say 'let them eat cake'
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MARIE Antoinette started out as what we today would call dumb as a
stump. In "Abundance," writer Sena Jeter Naslund's new historical
novel about Marie Antoinette, she was an extra princess in an
Austrian royal family where children were not so much treasured as
whelped for political benefit. Marie Antoinette was never much of a
reader, never caught on to the political desperation that ignited the
French Revolution and persisted in stunts such as creating faux
impoverished villages for her own playtime when France was stuffed
with authentically impoverished villages filled with the starving.
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Ares-Serono S.A. Invests US$40 Million to Buy Back 100% of InterPharm Laboratories Limited
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Ares Capital Corporation Prices Public Offering.
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Ares Capital Corporation Announces Public Offering.
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