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To: epsteinbd who wrote (84892)3/22/2003 11:03:07 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
After losing the Battle of San Jacinto (where Texas won independence from Mexico, to the cries, "Remember the Alamo!") the Mexican general, Santa-Anna, tried to escape wearing a peon's clothing, but was found out because he kept on his silk underwear. After being captured, he begged Sam Houston's physician to give him opium for his nerves.

Some things never change.



To: epsteinbd who wrote (84892)3/22/2003 11:28:06 AM
From: Karen Lawrence  Respond to of 281500
 
The political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau mentions it in his Confessions in connection with an incident that occurred in 1740. (He stole wine while working as a tutor in Lyons and then had problems trying to scrounge up something to eat along with it.) He concludes thusly: "Finally I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: 'Well, let them eat cake.'"


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