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Marie Antoinette


Quote: “If they have no bread, let them eat cake!” (”S’ils n’ont plus de pain, qu’ils mangent de la brioche.”)

This misquote has been covered on this site before, but I wanted to include it just in case some people haven’t seen it (it is a pet peeve of mine). Queen Marie Antoinette is still much maligned over this quote - and she never even said it! It was actually from the book Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in which he said: “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’.” The attribution to Queen Marie is no doubt anti-royal propaganda during a very troubled time in French history.

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玛丽·安托瓦内特

引语：如果他们没有面包，就让他们吃蛋糕。

这句错误的引语在本网站已经提到过，我把它纳入进来以防有人没有留意到。玛丽·安托瓦内特王后至今还因这句引语而被中伤，但她从来没有说过这样的话。这实际上出自让·雅克·卢梭的《忏悔录》一书。书中写道：“我记得一位伟大的公主在被告知农民们没有面包吃的时候，漫不经心的回答说：‘让他们吃蛋糕吧’。”将这引语说成出自玛丽王后之口，这毫无疑问是在法国历史上那个混乱的年代的一种反对王室的宣传。