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Would the French still have had a revolution.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Wasnt it cos they had no bread she said let them eat cake?
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Pedantry? didnt he play up front for Madrid a few years back? Or am I thinking of a pastry based product?  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Since when has anything French been important.  
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best newspaper headline I ever saw. Evening Standard
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they say it's the quiet ones |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"isnt the cake referred to a type of rough bread they had at the time with little nutritiomal value"
It's brioche..which is more refined so more expensive. so she was being facetious.If she had said it.Which she didn't |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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What Marie Antoinette said, when told that the peasents were starving as they had no cheap bread, was let them eat expensive bread. On this basis, the English translation of her statement is true, at least etemologicaly , if not in the spirit of the phrase.
The french Revolution was aimed far more at the aristocracy as they paid very few taxes and hugely abused their privaledged positions (take note you bankers and corporations....).
The royalty of France were not executed until some time into the revolution as they were seen, by the common people, as the sacred saviors of the body politic. It was not until they failed to affect significant reform on the upper classes that their heads were hopped off.....
So, yes, the French Revolution would still have happened had Marie Antoinette said let them eat pudding (or baps or buns or any other bread related product....)
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"It wasnt marie antionette that said those words, its just claimed that she said them. Cant remember who actually said them some french woman"
That would be Louis XIVs Queen Marie Thérèse, nearly a century before Antoinette... |
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