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Baker (The)

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Louis XVI. was called “the Baker,” the queen was called “the baker’s wife” (or La Boulangère), and the dauphin the “shop boy;” because a heavy trade in corn was carried on at Versailles, and consequently very little was brought to Paris.

“The return of the baker, his wife, and the shop-boy to Paris [after the king was brought from Versailles] had not had the expected effect. Flour and bread were still scarce.”—A. Dumas: The Countess de Charny, chap. ix.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Baillif (Herry)
Bain Marie
Bairam
Baisser
Bait
Bajaderes
Bajulus
Bajura
Baked
Baked Meat
Baker (The)
Baker’s Dozen
Baker’s Knee (A)
Bakshish
Bal
Balaam
Balaam Basket or Box (A)
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Balai
Balak
Balâm

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