Not that we actually know anyone really ever said `Qu'ils mangent de la brioche' (sorry, my French gets better when I look it up), but the quote is apparently from Rousseau who attributed it vaguely to some `princess', and apparently he took it in more or less the same spirit as we take it today, evidence of the clueless disdain of the royal upper crust for the life and death struggles of the peasants.iiipopes wrote: In other words, keeping in mind the contrast between the social strata, it was more a statement of maintaining the status quo of the respective lifestyles
Very unlikely that was Marie Antoinette, as there's enough evidence that she did know what was going on and was at least able to affect some concern over it. Went to the guillotine anyway, paying the price for generations of upper crust parasites.
