
“The people are starving, Your Highness. They have no bread,” a French courtier is alleged to have said to Marie Antoinette. The queen’s reply (which she likely never uttered) was, “Then let them eat cake.”

“The people are starving, Your Highness. They have no bread,” a French courtier is alleged to have said to Marie Antoinette. The queen’s reply (which she likely never uttered) was, “Then let them eat cake.”