07-24-2013, 10:04 AM
Marie Antoinette is famously quoted as saying "Let them eat cake" when she was told people were starving from the bread shortage. This is not really what she said. What she really said was "Let them eat brioche," brioche being a very rich type of bread. I am unsure of why the quote was changed, but it could be due to her being an unpopular ruler and this was to show off how disconnected she was from her subjects