In contrast to popular belief Marie Antoinette never said "Let them eat cake"
And it was actually first in 1843 it was attributed to her by Alphonse Karr
The one who actually said it was the French Queen Maria Theresa who was Queen of France from 1660 to 1683. She was the wife of Louis XIV of France.
The line "Let them eat cake or to be more correct " Let them eat Brioche" was said in the 1660s over a 100 years before the French revolution.
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