Marie Antoinette. So called because she was always demanding money of her ministers, and never had any. According to the Revolutionary song:
“La Boulangère a des ecus,
Qui ne lui content guère.”
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(See Baker.)
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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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