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Marie-Antoinette
Marie-Antoinette
- Qu'ils mangent de la brioche.Let them eat cake.on being told that her people had no breadattributed, but much older; in his Confessions (1740) Rousseau refers to a similar remark being a well-known saying; another version is ‘Que ne mangent-ils de la croûte de pâté? [Why don't they eat pastry?]’, attributed to Marie-Thérèse (1638–83), wife of Louis XIV