Let's them eat cake

[tucho58]

The phrase "let's them eat cake" has been attibuted to Marie Antoinette who apparently never uttered it...
who was it then?

[shaneystar2]

Nobody knows
http://ask.yahoo.com/20021122.html

[BBWCHATT]

The original quote comes from Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions: "Finally, I recalled the make-shift of a great princess who was told that the peasants had no bread and who replied: �Let them eat brioche�. " ("Je me rappelai le pis-aller d�une grande princesse � qui l�on disait que les paysans n�avaient pas de pain, et qui r�pondit, qu�ils mangent de la brioche. "). He could not have been speaking of Marie-Antoinette, as she was 10 when he wrote this, and not yet born at the time of the incident. It has been speculated that he was actually referring to Maria Theresa of Spain or various other aristocrats, though no evidence has ever been offered for this; most likely it was his own invention.

[vehelpfulguy]

Mr Kipling ?

[dramaqueen94]

HaHa Mr Kipling

well the french bread brioche is quite sweet (is that how you spell it?) and so when she told people to give them that they assumed she was saying let them eat cake. She was hated so they would have said anything to make her have more enemies