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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Dinner knives are rounded off because King Louis XIV of France declared it to be so
In 1669, King Louis XIV of France decreed all pointed knives on the street or the dinner table illegal, and he had all knife points ground down in order to reduce violence
http://www.hospitalityguild.com/History/history_of_the_knife.htm
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