Wordlab notes that Marie Antoinette didn’t really invite her subjects to storm the pâtisserie. I could, however, imagine her saying “Qu’ils mangent de la caque” (cf HistoricAL), were it not that Vulgum says it was derived later, by Céline, from caquer/caguer, to shit. Cognates turn up in other Romance dialects, as do they in Dutch.…
There’s a good piece today by Arcadi Espada on the conflict of interests that prevents press and politicians commenting on the call by Oriol Malló in the state-financed Avui for the extermination of those opposed to the nationalist-socialist status quo. I’ll be surprised if the courts manage any better.
The Telegraph is publishing ((free) login required) the wartime recollections of WF Deedes, who passed through Hengelo and, one assumes, Oldenzaal on his way to Germany with the King’s Royal Rifle Corps in 1944-5.
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