Rohan Was So Stupid ...


... that he didn't notice that the counterfeit notes were signed MARIE ANTOINETTE DE FRANCE. That signature was not appropriate for MA since she was not born a princess of France; as a foreign-born queen, her proper signature would have been simply her name. The Queen of Spain does not call herself Sofia of Spain, since she was not born Spanish; her proper name is Sofia of Greece.

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In reality, King Louis XVI thought so, as well. He admonished Louis De Rohan especially for forgetting royalty do not use surnames... Rohan being a foreign prince, himself.

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