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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.

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Question: Why Did Marie Antoinette Say Let Them Eat Cake?

Answer: Yes, it's because the people were starving and couldnt afford any bread. However the irony (and hatefulness) of the statement is the fact that if they couldn't afford bread, they CERTAINLY couldn't afford cake.

Random Trivia, the French called Marie Antoinette L'Autrichienne, which is french for "The Austrian" with emhpasis on the CHIENNE syllable... which came out something like "The Austrian Bit*h"

Let Them Eat Cake