Today I Found Out

Today I Found Out

The Truth About Marie Antoinette and "Let Them Eat Cake" (2015x98)


Air date: Aug 06, 2015

→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/todayifo→“let them eat cake”. Now, I know what some of you are thinking, “Of course she didn’t, she spoke French!” But, in fact, she didn’t say “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche” either. In fact, this saying in France actually pre-dated her arrival there by anywhere from about thirty years to as much as a century. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/12/marie-antoinette-never-said-let-them-eat-cake/ Sources: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/550/did-marie-antoinette-really-say-let-them-eat-cake http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Theresa_of_Spain http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/antoinettemarie/a/histmyths4.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette Image Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Marie_Antoinette_1767.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Marie_Antoinette_Young4.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Ex%C3%A9cution_de_Marie_Antoinette_le_16_octobre_1793.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau_(painted_portrait).jpg http://uploads4.wikiart.org/images/allan-ramsay/jean-jacques-rousseau.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Kaiserin_Maria_Theresia_(HRR).jpg/826px-Kaiserin_Maria_Theresia_(HRR).jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Marie_Antoinette_in_Muslin_dress.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Adolf_Ulrik_Wertm%C3%BCller_-_Queen_Marie_Antoinette_of_France_and_two_of_her_Children_Walking_in_The_Park_of_Trianon_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Marie_Antoinette_by_L._L._P%C3%A9rin-Salbreux.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Marie_Antoinette_Adult.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/La_Fayette_and_Marie_Antoinette_6th_october_1789.jpg https://uploa

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