Marie Antoinette

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Question: Any accurate websites about Marie Antoinette's daughter?

I've been interested about the Life Of Marie Antoinette's daughter, Marie-Therese-Charlotte. Are there any accurate sites online I can go to about her that are safe? Thanks!

Answer: a few links:

http://teaattrianon.blogspot.com/2007/01/duchesse-of-angouleme-daughter-of-marie.html

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/France/_Texts/CROROY/Memoires_du_Temple/1*.html

(primary source)

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/France/_Texts/CROROY/Fuite_de_Varennes*.html

(primary source)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1596910577 - book on her
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0396056415 book on her

http://www.madame-royale.de/

info on the place she is burried:

http://www.samostan-kostanjevica.si/

Marie Antoinette's Life

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Question: What did Marie Antoinette mean by "Let them eat cake"?

Answer: She didn't say that phrase.

"Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", supposedly said by a French princess upon learning that the peasants had no bread. As brioche is a luxury bread enriched with eggs and butter, it would reflect the princess's obliviousness to the nature of a famine.

Although commonly attributed to Queen Marie Antoinette, there is no record of these words ever having been uttered by her; they first appear in The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, his putative autobiographical work (completed in 1769, when Marie Antoinette was 13), where he wrote the following in Book 6:

Enfin je me rappelai le pis-aller d’une grande princesse à qui l’on disait que les paysans n’avaient pas de pain, et qui répondit : Qu’ils mangent de la brioche.

Finally I recalled the worst-recourse of a great princess to whom it was said that the peasants had no bread, and who responded: "Let them eat brioche."
Rousseau does not name the "great princess" and there is speculation that he invented the anecdote, which has no other sources.

Let them eat cake