DEMYSTIFIED: Did Marie-Antoinette really say "Let them eat cake"? | Encyclopaedia Britannica
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- “Let them eat cake” is the most famous quote attributed to Marie-Antoinette, the queen of France during the French Revolution. But did she ever actually utter those words? Probably not. 🎂
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"It is quite certain that in seeing the people who treat us so well despite their own misfortune, we are more obliged than ever to work hard for their happiness." (Marie-Antoinette - the real one)
She supported many charitable organisations from her own budget, adopted children of peasants and commoners to be raised with her own children, and invested in organisations that helped lower-class girls get married. She even ordered at one point that the 100+ toys that the royal children got for Christmas should be sent to the poor.
Too bad that nobody cares about Antoinette the real person (who worked hard to make her role as a queen as meaningful and useful as it could be within that system), because there is Antoinette-whose-had-was-chopped, and she needs to symbolise all kinds of negative things, so that it's easier to explain to schoolkids why the revolution happened and occurred the way it did. Well, it's just a tiny little problem that she was totally, completely different...
@@gil658 yes, the quote is from one of her authentic letters. The rest of the information is also recorded in contemporary sources.
You need a short haircut like the aristocracy my friend.
@@eodyctherton do you imply that you wish me to be executed? You don't know anything about me, neither my actual view of contemporary world, nor my reasons behind wanting to do justice to misunderstood historical characters. So please don't wish me to be dead just because you read one single comment written by me on RUclips.
@@zsofiahacsek4928 I'm just a humble barber my friend. Where did you get such a silly idea?
@@eodyctherton 🙃
Marie: well then let them eat Taco Bell crunch wrap supreme.
Guy: WOW there not that desperate.
O v e r s I m p f I l e d
Oh queen so Cake ha so people Paris so hungry queen so cote fresen love
How does this make no sense and have this many likes. Yall are all illiterate
Tbh, I think you may be oversimplifying
The "cake" in _let them eat cake_ refers not to a special Birthday Cake with icing and lots of sweet stuff nor a chocolate-layer cake which also tastes luxurious. _Cake_ was a cheap kind of bread, the sort of crap that poor people ate way, way back in Medieval and post-Medieval Europe, back when people were still doing the Monarchy-thing. I think the saying meant little more than _let them eat dirt._ You know, by the virtue, and awesome responsibilities, of such positions, those upper levels really, really _must_ be very, very clean ( ruclips.net/video/XgDG_wc19aU/видео.html ).
If Marie-Antoinette really didn't say _let them eat cake,_ or wasn't the first to say something very similar to that, who did, and what was the context and Historical details of that?
What!!?? Trigger alert! That link shows an actual be-heading!!! But it couldn’t have been Marie Antoinette, because Marie Antoinette lived in the 1700’s. What is this about!
I mean icing wasn't even there in 1700s so only plain cake would be available. Maximum luxurious cake would be mixing some cocoa, water and sugar layer between plain cake. Brioche was the cake available then so how can it be like she asked them to eat dirt? She just said them to eat something expensive just because she could afford it by being oblivious to other people's misery.
Also, you just point out to some video of person beheading like what is so clean about that?
If she didn't say let them eat cake then the author must have wanted to say it. He just attributed the quote to a rich 9-year mysterious princess oblivious to people's suffering to gain fame for his book. That could be the case but why should we care for? The French people lost most of their wars in history and today such rude sentences are so common over the internet.
That video was lovely, thanks for sharing!
You clearly did not even listen to this video.
@@KetoGalAnn don’t worry it wasn’t real. It was a historical reenactment. Well …it really did happen..though you just didn’t watch it. 😅
HERE IN THE SOUTH,WE HAVE ALWAYS CALLED CORNBREAD AS A CAKE OF CORNBREAD, ISN'T THAT THE SAME, LIKE PASS ME THE CORNBREAD AND PENTO BEANS,YUM YUM 😋.AND A TALL GLASS OF SWEET ICE TEA.
Thank you for clearing up the confusion and set the truth right ▶️! The public MUST know the REAL Truth! Blessings and Hugs 💖🤗🙏🤗🙏🤗🙏!
Marie Antoinette
She said that. I was there.
The resentment of the poor against the rich has always been a powerful enough force to misattribute falsehoods.
the falsehood only lies in the item that was consumed, Antionette was ill informed and truthfully didn't know any better(which itself is an issue why people shouldn't be born into or marry into royalty, Egypt is another example of that). JFK had some debacles like this and not being aware of the Great Depression as an adult.
100% you are rich yourself... you cetainly have never signed on and been on benefits.
The fetishization of the rich has always been a powerful enough force to cause piece of sh*t suck ups to show themselves.
Duff, it's time for guillotines.
..nuthin changed , after all these years ..😧
Misery done.
I’m starting to think it was propaganda spread by her political enemies. Her being an Austrian in France at the time put her in a precarious position. I don’t know if she said it or didn’t. But I am inclined to think it was political propaganda used against her.
And you would be correct.
The author of her biography said that this quote would be so out of touch of her personality. She reportedly gave charity. if someone gives charity they atleast know peoples suffering.
Cake is a bad translation, the quote translates to :let them eat brioche. Brioche is a kind of bread with butter and suggar, which makes it more tasteful but also more expensive than regular bread. That's the subtility of the quote.
No shit, it says so in the video
Also, the video basically states that the "quote" did NOT originate from her. It's likely she didn't say it at all.
Plus, it's not subtility. Or subtlety.
Maria teresa of Austria wife of Louis the 14th and a relative of Louis the 16th and of marie said "let them eat cake"
There is also a Chinese version which goes ‘’何不食肉糜？’’
@@Zikoeng Fong: "There is also a Chinese version which goes '何不食肉糜？'"
translate.google.com/?ui=tob&sl=auto&tl=en&text=%E4%BD%95%E4%B8%8D%E9%A3%9F%E8%82%89%E7%B3%9C%EF%BC%9F&op=translate
Interesting. That is History? Tell me more!
who came from queen?
Haleyy baley😱😱😑😑😑"LET THEM EAT CAKE"
Misattributing quotes?
There's a tax for that!
NO. I don't buy it for a second. But remember. History is written by the victors
Luke M Why do you still think she said it?
and people like you have the ability to vote. sigh
she acts like she’s all dat 😙✨💅🏻
@西施小狗Ling Ling
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I think she got decapitated in the end for her, but I was just looking up details hehehe
There is no evidence that she did not say it. The claim that the phrase with variations was "around Europe" is evidence supporting the conclusion that she DID say it, not that she did not say it. This is the third video I have seen with this hoax analysis claiming that she did not say it. FYI, "brioche" translates as "sweet bun" so that is close enough to cake, and gives even more credence to the claim that she said "let them eat sweet buns."
Even so, she probably didn't say it to be callous.
theloveforhistory.wordpress.com/people/marie-antoinette/charitable-works-of-xvi-and-marie-antoinette/
www.history.com/news/did-marie-antoinette-really-say-let-them-eat-cake
It was actually written when Marie Antoinette was like five the chances of her saying it is highly unlikely there’s some speculation it could’ve been Louis the 14th’s wife she was an easy target during the revolution
She's was years ahead in intelligence - bodybuilder.
Who is here from killer queen
Carby Games huh 🤪🤪🤪
2024: let them eat cereal
If I was Marie I would say
"move ladies I need mah big Mac!"
It’s been known she never said that. They make up things this is another example.
You forgot an s In il...it’s ils
Thank U for sharing…
Basically, if you are rich you will defend her and see her as a victim. People were starving.
she was 14 when she came to France and 19 when she became queen, Teenager’s can not rule country’s. And she also donated to charities, she also didn’t know how bad it actually was.
another small-minded pathetic person in here who obviously has only hear the word of "Rich"
let me tell you this and just remove all of your pathetic excuses of "People were starving" hear this! in Spain, people had decades and centuries of famine and starvation, hell Chaos in Spain existed in 18th century as well and didn't exactly end, not even after they got rid of French Revolutionaries! how is that they didn't turn into such a lunatic people? in Netherlands, there wasn't just famine, people always had to make themselves ready for floods as well and months of bad weather! how is that their only problem that would make them loose it, was fear being controlled by an intruder (like France or England) and didn't turn such a petty excuses to turn mad? somehow French are more worthy than rest of nations? or just more weak? less strong? well, I guess we should thank Russia for teaching them a lesson, actually showing them what it's like! the true starvation, when you don't turn into a lunatic, instead you basically loose the power of your body, you can't even think about continuing a fight, or how about freezing to death the way you might even burn your own country's flag in order to warm yourself! thanks Russia for actually showing such an ignorant people, what their nonsense truly looks like
shut your mouth
She was a very young woman. Let's be real here, there isn't much she could have done. But she tried.
Let them eat cake
Just because it was said by others before her doesn't prove that it wasn't said by her.
Yeah but she didn’t say it.
@@elainebenez1069 you know that because?
@@BirolKanmaz there is absolutely no proof that she said it, and most of the accounts of her supposedly saying that come from French Revolution propaganda. But I agree that the argument being made here is pretty weak.
You probably use the n word, because some people from your time say the n word, seems like a solid, worthwhile speculation
she didn't say and pathetics like you can't change that
Brioche
Lenin said the same with a small difference: "Let them eat shit"
Its the equivalent of if your homeless
Buy a house
Marge Frenchson
This video was so useless, surely an explanation of the context would have been a very sensible place to start?
... and absolute origin, would have been nice.
😂
And they still don't know anything about peasant life. Out of touch to the point that they think their feelings are more important that people who've been burned alive.
children repeat phrases from eternity past,yet when one of the more celebrated ones says it then its gospel. just because someone uttered the same words years ago does not disprove that she said the phrase. you have no concrete proof she did not repeat this verse.
people like you are even more pathetic, since you try to prove something that hasn't been said by a person, you try desperately to prove like it's said, because it's endangering your pathetic propaganda
People are talking about her 'personal letters' as if they were windows into her soul.
Her personal letters were not conducive of a queen at all. Nobody wanted to hear a foreign Queen opine about politics and religion.
But they were filled with gossip. Analyzing the flaws and personal failings of the others at court, criticizing fashion and appearances, and her preferences in food and fabric.
They were not phenomenal letters at all.
In translation : let them smoke crack..