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Let Them Eat Cake: The Mythical Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution, Historian, Summer 1993, 55:4:709. Campion-Vincent, Véronique and Shojaei Kawan, Christine, Marie-Antoinette et son célèbre dire : deux scénographies et deux siècles de désordres, trois niveaux de communication et trois modes accusatoires , Annales historiques de ...
Marie Antoinette did not say "let them eat cake" when she heard that the French peasantry were starving due to a shortage of bread. The phrase was first published in Rousseau's Confessions, written when Marie Antoinette was only nine years old and not attributed to her, just to "a great princess". It was first attributed to her in 1843.
The first meeting took place on 22 February 1787, nine days after the death of Vergennes on 13 February. Marie Antoinette did not attend the meeting and her absence resulted in accusations that the Queen was trying to undermine its purpose. [121] [122] The Assembly was a failure. It did not pass any reforms and, instead, fell into a pattern of ...
(As a side note, the "let them eat cake" quote is popularly attributed to Marie Antoinette, often shared as evidence of her callous attitude toward starving peasants, but historians do not believe ...
The user goes on to say the goal behind the movement is to “stop certain streams of income and popularity.” Staying on theme with Marie Antoinette’s time period, TikToker @Ladyfromtheoutside ...
One TikTok user went so far as to say: “This is Kellogg’s version of ‘let them eat cake’” — using a phrase often attributed to the last Queen of France, Marie-Antoinette, ...
Mercury commented he wrote the lyrics before the melody and music, whereas normally he would do the opposite. He stated that the song was about a high-class call girl. The song's first verse quotes a phrase traditionally but falsely attributed to Marie Antoinette: "'Let them eat cake,' she says, Just like Marie Antoinette". "Killer Queen ...
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