Historical Untruths, One
The most enduring legend about decadent French Queen Marie Antoinette is that when she was told her people didn’t have bread, she coldheartedly replied, “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche” (“Let them eat cake”).
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“Let Them Eat Cake”!
Marie Antoinette was known to be a charitable person – very generous and wanting to give to the “have-nots”. Why, then, is she said to have said, “Let them eat cake” ?
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“Let Them Eat Cake”
In Paris, the Bastille was originally constructed in 1370 as a bastide, or “fortification,” to protect the walled city of Paris from English attack. It was later made into an independent stronghold, and its name–bastide–was corrupted to Bastille. On this day, in 1789 Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops stormed and dismantled the Bastille, a royal fortress that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs. This dramatic action signaled the beginning of the French Revolution, a decade of political turmoil and terror in which King Louis XVI was overthrown and tens of thousands of people, including the king and his wife Marie Antoinette, were executed. And yes, Marie Antoinette is the one… Read more
