who said "let them eat cake'"?

Question

What was the full quote

Answer 1

Marie Antoinette, Wife of King Louis XVI of France. King Louis XVI's coronation took place at Reims during the height of a bread shortage in Paris. This is the context in which Marie Antoinette is incorrectly quoted as joking, "If they have no bread, then let them eat cake!" ("Qu'ils mangent de la brioche.") There is no evidence that this phrase was ever uttered by Marie Antoinette. When Marie Antoinette actually heard about the bread shortage she wrote, "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. The king seems to understand this truth; as for myself, I know that in my whole life (even if I live for a hundred years) I shall never forget the day of the coronation

Answer 2

We're not entirely sure who said "Let them eat cake," but we can tell you that it wasn't Marie Antoinette. This flippant phrase about consuming pastry is commonly attributed to the frivolous queen in the days leading up to the French Revolution. Supposedly, she spoke these words upon hearing how the peasantry had no bread to eat. But biographers and historians have found no evidence that Marie uttered these words or anything like them.
Our old pal Cecil Adams of The Straight Dope explains the quotation was first written by French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Confessions. Actually, Rousseau wrote "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche," which essentially means "let them eat a type of egg-based bread" (not quite cake, but still a bit extravagant). Rousseau claimed that "a great princess" told the peasants to eat cake/brioche when she heard they had no bread.

But Rousseau wrote this in early 1766, when Marie Antoinette was only 10 years old, still living in her native Austria and not yet married to King Louis XVI. So it's highly unlikely that Marie uttered the pompous phrase. Perhaps Rousseau invented them to illustrate the divide between royalty and the poor -- which is certainly how the phrase has been used ever since.

However, "Let them eat brioche" isn't quite as cold a sentiment as you might imagine. At the time, French law required bakers to sell fancy breads at the same low price as the plain breads if they ran out of the latter. The goal was to prevent bakers from making very little cheap bread and then profiting off the fancy, expensive bread. Whoever really said "Let them eat brioche" may have meant that the bakery laws should be enforced so the poor could eat the fancy bread if there wasn't enough plain bread to go around.

A recent biographer claims that "Let them eat cake" was actually spoken by Marie-Therese, wife of France's Louis XIV, 100 years before Marie Antoinette, but we couldn't find anything online to corroborate this. Ultimately, we will probably never know who uttered this infamous phrase.

Answer 3

Born in Austria, a daughter of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Maria Theresa, Marie Antoinette married the dauphin, Louis, grandson of Louis XV of France, in 1770. He ascended the throne in 1774.

She was vilified for her spending habits and opposition to reforms. The 1785-86 Affair of the Diamond Necklace, a scandal in which she was accused of having an affair with a cardinal, further discredited her and reflected on the monarchy.

When the Bastille was stormed on July 14, 1789, the queen urged the king to resist the Assembly's reforms, making her even more unpopular, and leading to the attribution to her of the remark, "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche!" -- "Let them eat cake!" Imprisoned with the king, Marie Antoinette continued to plot. Her unpopularity helped lead to the overthrow of the monarchy in 1792. Louis XVI was executed in January 1793, and the Queen on October 16 of that year.

This is the full quote
"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche!" --

Answer 4

Marie Antoinette suggested it in the course of the French Revolution. because of a negative growing to be season, prevalent as "the year and not using a summer season" in the course of the U.S. and Europe, bread had change into quite scarce and expensive. even as she heard the peasants were revolting because of this, Marie suggested "enable them devour cake," not determining that cake became even more effective previous their skill. It became in basic terms an additional effective component which confirmed the peasants how out of contact the monarchy became.

Answer 5

If the people have no bread, let them eat cake!

However, this link will tell you Marie Antoinette, did not really say that.

Answer 6

Actually, it was a Hollywood script writer, who made the world think that Marie Antoinette said it. Just recently I saw somewhere that she never said this...in the old movie from the 1930's, somebody said to MarieA: " the people have no bread."
She said, " then let them eat cake"

Answer 7

Jean-Jacques Rousseau a French philosopher

Answer 8

Marie Antoinette

She's credited in general with this quote:
"If they have no bread, then let them eat cake!"

But there's lots of controversy over this and no evidence she actually said it...

Answer 9

The problem is that Marie Antoinette may never have actually said this

Answer 10

not entirely sure who said "Let them eat cake," but can tell you that it wasn't Marie Antoinette.