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 * ...that Ladurée, which sells 15,000 macarons (pictured) per day, opened a tea house in its Parisian pastry shop in the 1930s, to cater for society ladies, who at that time were not admitted to cafés?
 * ...that Princess Louise-Marie of France, the youngest of the 10 children of Louis XV of France and his Queen consort Maria Leszczyńska, amazed the court when she asked her father to allow her to become a Carmelite nun in 1770?
 * ...that the Black African Students Federation in France (F.E.A.N.F.) opposed the French 1965 Loi Cadre, which it considered as a move to Balkanize Africa?

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 * 1) Recent additions/2007/March, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
 * 2) Recent additions/2006/November, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
 * 3) Recent additions/2009/September, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.