Let them eat cake?

[swilhelm73]

So, I've heard recently that in fact Marie-Antoinette may not have been the one to say those infamous words.

Apparently the quote is originally from Rousseau's Confessions written in 1768 and attributed to a "Great princess" - which would tend to point in the direction of Austria's Queen Marie-Therese - presuming Rousseau didn't just make it up.

Anyone know the truth of this?

 

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Apparently she didn't say it:

http://www.alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxletthe.html
http://pages.about.com/versailles/marieantoinette.html

 

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This was rather interesting. Thanks for the info. I now have a useful bit of trivia to bring up. Don't know where but....