As famous as she is for having proclaimed, “Let them eat cake”, when she heard that the French peasants were starving from the dearth of bread, Marie Antoinette actually never said it. The young queen was known to be quite tender-hearted, in contrast to her less flattering attributes as a spendthrift and wild reveler. There are accounts of her administering aid to a peasant who'd been gored by a wild animal as well as taking in an orphaned boy. Besides accounts like these that attest to her kind and generous nature, there are straightforward facts that disprove her utterance of this scandalous remark.
Which of the following would strengthen the claim made in the passage?
1)
Marie Antoinette had plenty of enemies in Paris, and it was easy to fabricate stories about the queen's spendthrift habits.
2)
The expression is not as callous as it may sound because from an economical standpoint, it was a perfectly logical thing to say during that period.
3)
There's a possibility that Jean Rousseau, author of the book from which the expression comes, turned the phrase himself; other historians think it may have been uttered by Maria Theresa.
4)
When Jean Rousseau's “Confessions”, the book from which the expression comes, was first published in 1782, Marie Antoinette was a naive 10 year old under her mother's care in Austria and had not even seen France.
5)
A French law mandated that bakers sell their brioche or the “egg based cake breads” at the same price as their inexpensive bread if their supply ran out.
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Definition of The belief, at, one time commonly held, that in ___________ development and physical appearance the Bantu people stand nearer in the scale of evolution to our common ape-like ancestors than do the white people does not seem to be ___________ by facts.
(A) Richa is better than or at least as good a speaker as him.(B) Raghbir is an amiable person and has a ready sense of humour.(C) The child not only loves learning to crawl on all fours but also making incessant though incoherent sounds.
A) Entering into a bitter argument with the curmudgeon was easy, but it was pretty difficult for me to extricate myself.(B) Having known the old woman for years, it was still not easy for me to recognize the dead body.(C) Those who have already appeared for the interview today, have all agreed to stay back till evening.
(A) The (A) foundering / (B) floundering ship sank much too soon so that when the rescue crew arrived, they could only find the (A) jetsam / (B) flotsam.(B) (A) Treachery / (B) treason is a culpable offence; (A) treachery/ (B) treason falls within the domain of moral turpitude.
A) The (A) aphasic / (B) amnesic old man often cannot recall the names of even his (A) near / (B) closerelatives, but can otherwise converse with them quite normally.(B) Something needs to be done post haste before the (A) rot / (B) rote sets in and pandemonium (A)reigns / (B) reins supreme.
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The Question below contains one or more blank spaces , each blank space indicating an omitted word or phrase .beneath the sentence are five words or set of words .choose the word or the set of words for each blank space that best fits the meaning as sentence as a whole
The Question below contains one or more blank spaces , each blank space indicating an omitted word or phrase .beneath the sentence are five words or set of words .choose the word or the set of words for each blank space that best fits the meaning as sentence as a whole
The Question below contains one or more blank spaces , each blank space indicating an omitted word or phrase .beneath the sentence are five words or set of words .choose the word or the set of words for each blank space that best fits the meaning as sentence as a whole
In each of the following questions a paragraph has been split into 5 parts .rearrange the sentences (A-E) to form a coherent paragraph and choose the correct sequence form the given options
In each of the following questions a paragraph has been split into 5 parts .rearrange the sentences (A-E) to form a coherent paragraph and choose the correct sequence form the given options
