Marie Antoinette didn’t say let them eat cake As the story goes, when Queen Marie Antoinette heard that the French peasants were starving and didn’t have enough bread, she exclaimed “Let ...
Find out why Marie Antoinette is often blamed for causing the French Revolution by saying “let them eat cake” to her starving subjects. Lucy Worsley uncovers the myths and secrets that led the ...
“Let them eat cake,” said 18th-century French royal Marie Antoinette when her starving subjects complained about the lack of bread, or so the famous story goes. This suggestion was apparently ...