Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. … - Marie Antoinette

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If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice.

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Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.

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