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She didn't actually say it. That was propoganda put out by her enemies. However, what it was supposed to mean was her absolute lack of understanding of the plight of the poor. At the time, the price of bread had skyrocketed, while the wheat was being stockpiled by the rich. So the conversation was supposed to have been: "The poor have no bread" "Well, let them eat cake"
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According to historical legend, Marie Antoinette's cry of, "Let them eat cake!" was the straw that broke the camel's back during the French Revolution. The story goes that Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, was informed that her subjects were starving because they had no bread. She was so pampered and out of touch with the reality of life for the poor that she responded, "Let them eat cake," which is what she would have done if she were out of bread.
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Her enemies meant to demonstrate how clueless she was.
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She was just demonstrating that she was utterly disconnected from ordinary people, much like when Prince Andrew, on a television programme, was told that he was going to be late and he replied, "No, everybody else is going to be early." It's just arrogance born of privilege.
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It wasn't said by Marie Antoinette. A recent biographer claims that "Let them eat cake" was actually spoken by Marie-Therese, wife of France's Louis XIV, 100 years before Marie Antoinette, but we couldn't find anything online to corroborate this. Ultimately, we will probably never know who uttered this infamous phrase. However, "Let them eat brioche" isn't quite as cold a sentiment as you might imagine. At the time, French law required bakers to sell fancy breads at the same low price as the plain breads if they ran out of the latter. The goal was to prevent bakers from making very little cheap bread and then profiting off the fancy, expensive bread. Whoever really said "Let them eat brioche" may have meant that the bakery laws should be enforced so the poor could eat the fancy bread if there wasn't enough plain bread to go around. source: http://ask.yahoo.com/20021122.html
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I think the little bubbleheaded twit meant exactly what she said. She innocently could not understand that they had absolutely nothing to eat, so when they complained she thought they should do what she and all her friends did. When they didn't have any bread, they ate cake. Doesn't everybody? Like so many rich people of her day, she was so out of touch with the realities of everyday life, it never occurred to her that they had no cake, either.
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It was her way of saying, PARTAY...
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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmMMMMMMmmmmmmmm...... cakkkkkkkkkkkkkkkeeeeeeee..... what was the question?
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I was taught many years ago that the reference was to material from the bakers oven. In the baking process bits and pieces of what was being baked would splatter onto the walls of the ovens. Over time this material "CAKED" up and would have to be scraped off. While not very good to taste this "cake" could be eaten in very hard times. Has anyone ever heard this story? Is it possible that this is what the reference is to even if she is not the person who said it?
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This famous comment (if it was really said) has been completely misunderstood. Some months ago I found the "rest of the story." There was a shortage of the type bread eaten by the lower classes, which was of low quality. When the queen learned of the shortage and said, "Then let them eat cake." she was not being callous or sarcastic. "Cake" was the term for the much higher quality bread eaten by the upper classes. Of course the commoners or lower classes could not afford "cake" - and Marie had no concept of the condition of the lower classes.
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Since she never said it, I'm sure it meant nothing.
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I think it was a way of saying fuck em.
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She was a spoiled aristocrat and couldn't concieve of a situation where someone couldn't even afford to buy bread. Apparently she thought that when people said they had no bread, all they needed to do is go to the kitchen and get out some cake until they could get more bread. Contrary to what many people made that statement out to be, by all accounts of people who knew her, she didn't intend to be dismissive or sarcastic.
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She never said it.
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"Cake" was the course meally - healthier - bread that accumulated in ovens of which there was a plenty. But even the poorest Parisian being an insufferable and inflexible snob, none would eat but the finest bread made from the whitest purest most aristocratic flower. Trying to court favor with the Parisian mob, the king had set a price limit on the cost of this bread, so of course there was a shortage. Being a tough German broad with brass balls, Marie just told them to get off they high horse and eat the food that was plentiful and stob whining about "having no bread to eat." Over a century later, the French still hadn't learned. In World War I - though they were really starving - they refused to eat American corn, corn meal, and corn bread because "Corn is animal feed!" So, instead of saying what we should have said, "To Hell with the French!", we shipped them our wheat and "patriotic Americans" were encouraged to eat cornbread so we could send our wheat to France.
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She never said that. It is an Urban Legend, like George Washington's cherry tree story. They both never took place.
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