“First things first: Marie Antoinette never said, ‘Let them eat cake.’ Those words were attributed to an earlier French Queen, Marie-Therese, the wife of the Sun King Louis XIV. By 1767 – a year in which Marie Antoinette was still an innocent German-speaking twelve-year-old in Austria...”

“First things first: Marie Antoinette never said, ‘Let them eat cake.’ Those words were attributed to an earlier French Queen, Marie-Therese, the wife of the Sun King Louis XIV. By 1767 – a year in which Marie Antoinette was still an innocent German-speaking twelve-year-old in Austria...”

— Kris Waldherr