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Let them eat cake was a monarch's response to being told the starving poor had no bread. She offered to let them eat cake, as that's what she had been eating.
by kcatskcolbdi 5y ago
Let them eat cake was a monarch's response to being told the starving poor had no bread. She offered to let them eat cake, as that's what she had been eating.
Your version would only make sense if the rich were previously serving lattes.
- mistrial9 5y ago"Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", said to have been spoken in the 17th or 18th century by "a great princess" upon being told that the peasants had no bread.
- kcatskcolbdi 5y agoI'm not sure what your point is exactly. You italicize peasants as if that's a meaningful distinction from what I stated. I used the term "starving poor" in place of peasants.
- frenchyatwork 5y agoI'm pretty sure it was a silly joke. "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" (brioche is a light pastry bread) is unlikely to have actually been said by Mme Antoinette anyways.