French Revolution

No. No document or eyewitness records her saying it. The line appeared in Rousseau's Confessions when she was a child, and was pinned on her decades after her death.

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The left-right spectrum comes from seating in France's revolutionary assembly in 1789, where supporters of change sat left of the president and defenders of the king sat right.

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