[allmendream]

If ever a woman with no power no influence was given a bum rap by history - it was Marie Antoinette. She was basically hated for being a foreigner “Autre-chienne”- that foreign b*tch - for having nice things bought FOR HER with money she had no control over (the diamond necklace incident) - and being the wife of a despised monarch who was about to have his head cut off - and her as well.

I can see why the French Revolution needed to make her out to be everything she was not - but do we still need to buy their propaganda.

I am as anti-Royalist as they come - but really.

And she never did say “let them eat cake” - that particular smear was used before she ever came to France on a different target.

[agere_contra]

She’s History’s Greatest Monster!

[Little Ray]

I think she actually DID say something like “Let them eat cake,” but it didn’t mean what people think it means.

Cheap bread was price controlled in Paris, and, if the bakers ran out, they had to sell more expensive items, like cake, at the same price as the cheap bread. Hence “Let them eat cake.”

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

I can see why the French Revolution needed to make her out to be everything she was not - but do we still need to buy their propaganda.

She was of the 1%, the rabble 99%... Some things never change, off with her head!

Sigh...

Regards,
GtG