Today I Found Out
The Truth About Marie Antoinette and "Let Them Eat Cake" (2015x98)
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→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.
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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
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Marie_Antoinette_in_Muslin_dress.jpg
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