LET THEM EAT CAKE!

...as long as it's full of high-fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated fats, GMOs, sulfites, nitrites, nitrates, red dye #3, yellow dye #66, fluoride, titanium dioxide, cyanide, propylparaben, ethylene glycol, etc etc etc...!


"Let them eat cake" (originally "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche") did not originate with Marie Antoinette. It likely stems from17th/18th-century folklore or a story in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions written around 1765, which attributed it to an earlier "great princess". It was wrongly linked to Marie Antoinette by propaganda to symbolize her callousness. Britannica Britannica +2 Original Story: The phrase, more accurately translated as "Let them eat brioche" (a rich, egg-based bread), was a long-standing anecdote about out-of-touch royals in various cultures, including Russia and Germany, often appearing in tales of famine. The Misattribution: The phrase was attributed to Marie Antoinette to suggest she was oblivious to the poor who could not afford bread, despite no historical evidence she said it. Context: It is believed that French revolutionary propaganda falsely credited the quote to the queen to fuel anti-monarchy sentiment, according to insights from r/AskHistorians. The phrase is alleged to have been said by Marie Antoinette, queen consort of France, during one of the bread shortages during the reign of her husband, Louis XVI. However, it was not attributed to her until half a century after her death. Anti-monarchists during the French Revolution never cited this anecdote, but it nevertheless acquired great symbolic importance in subsequent historical accounts when pro-revolutionary commentators employed the phrase to denounce the upper classes of the Ancien Régime as oblivious and rapacious. As one biographer of the Queen notes, it was a particularly powerful phrase because "the staple food of the French peasantry and the working class was bread, absorbing 50 percent of their income, as opposed to 5 percent on fuel; the whole topic of bread was therefore the result of obsessional national interest."

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