My apologies in advance, but my inner pedantic is getting the better of me: It was reportedly Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France just before the French Revoluti

My apologies in advance, but my inner pedantic is getting the better of me: It was reportedly Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France just before the French Revolution that allegedly said "Let them eat cake!" - this claim is actually disputed, which is a bit of a shame actually, because it's just about the only thing anyone actually "knows" about Marie-Antoinette. As for the quote itself, I've always disliked that translation - the French version of the quote is "qu'ils mangent de la brioche!" - and I really don't know why we don't use "brioche" in the English version of the quote - it's a recognised word in English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brioche http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brioche Maybe it's just that when the quote was first translated at the end of the 18th Century, "brioche" wasn't used in English, and as a result "cake"was used, and it hasn't been changed since due to inertia... /pendantic