"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat……" — Marie Antoinette
"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV."
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24 Quotes by Marie Antoinette
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Let them eat cake.
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There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
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I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and…
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No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a…
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Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are…
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And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.
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Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father.
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If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.
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I have come, Sire, to complain of one of your subjects who has been so audacious as to kick me…
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I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.
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The ministers and the Jacobins are making the king declare war tomorrow on Austria. The ministers are hoping that this…
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I am terrified of being bored.
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