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Deficit(Madame). 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. (See Baker.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Deficit from Infoplease:
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