Talk:Marie Antoinette/@comment-141.0.12.143-20160114162740/@comment-184.160.162.126-20160115012857

. We know Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote:  "Finally I recalled the stop gap solution of a great princess who was told that the peasants had no bread, and who responded: "Let them eat brioche." It probably originated from there, and it was written years before Marie was even in France.

I tried and I didn't find proof that she's indeed the one who said that. A lot of sources actually state that she didn't. It just happened to be a really convenient quote for the revolutionairy side.

My history notes are in french and I don't feel like doing another research, so I'll be lazy and post a wikipedia link.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake