"Marie Antoinette never said “Let them eat cake”. There’s actually multiple layers to this one. Not only is it questionable whether or not she uttered the infamous line at all, originally it was meant to display her utter disconnection from the plight of the working class, not highlight some sort of sadistic cruelty.
Initially, she was meant to have 100% seriously suggested this as a solution to having no bread to eat, as to a sheltered noblewoman the concept of having no food at all was simply inconceivable. So if you’re out of bread, just eat something else!
tl;dr the quote was originally meant to make her look stupid, not evil."
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Molly 1 year ago
#8 created by laws to maximize markets...so communism.
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Philomena 1 year ago
Molly,
Turbo capitalism. Pure and deadly.
Irelands population is still lower than before the famine
Turbo capitalism. Pure and deadly.
Irelands population is still lower than before the famine
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Eunice 1 year ago
#3 - wrong. This actually dates back to a law long before her time *that benefited the poor*. In French, it actually makes sense. There were 2 kinds of bread - cheap "pain" and expensive "brioche." The law required bakers to sell the brioche for the same price as the pain if they ran out of pain before a certain hour of the day.
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Philomena 1 year ago
#15 it was always a common way to denounce strong females by making up stories about their sexual escapades. The same happened to cleopatra.
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Erna 1 year ago
#12
Tell this Mohammeds youngest wife Aisha!
Tell this Mohammeds youngest wife Aisha!
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Muriel 1 year ago
#15 It was a horse.
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Leve 1 year ago
#1 No. Sorry. Pasta is now known to have been in what is now Italy 900 years before Marco Polo was born. I was probably introduced by Arabs.
Turbo capitalism. Pure and deadly.
Irelands population is still lower than before the famine
Tell this Mohammeds youngest wife Aisha!