08-04-2022, 04:52 PM
(08-04-2022, 04:47 PM)Magoo Wrote: let them eat cakeSettle down, Marie!
mmmmmmm cake
Although - she never actually said that.
https://www.livescience.com/let-the-eat-cake.html
"Did Marie Antoinette really utter the infamous words, "Let them eat cake"?
The quick answer to this question is a simple "no." Marie Antoinette, the last pre-revolutionary queen of France, did not say "Let them eat cake" when confronted with news that Parisian peasants were so desperately poor they couldn't afford bread."
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)