Riding around in her coach, Marie Antoinette was said to have asked why the people looked so unhappy. “Your majesty, they have no bread,” she was allegedly told. It was indeed the case that the failed harvest of 1789 had made bread prices shoot through the roof; starvation loomed. But Marie Antoinette was said to have replied simply: “If they have no bread, let them eat cake.”
What really happened was that price controls were put on plain bread, causing a shortage. No bread. So she wanted to put price controls on high-end bread; i.e., 18th-century French equivalent of cake. Which also caused a shortage. Price controls do that. Marie Antoinette was not a cold-hearted, out-of-touch debutante. She was a leftard. Which is the same thing, for all practical purposes in whatever era.
Versailles and Paris might as well have been different countries.