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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

If Marie Antoinette. had said let them eat pudding rather than cake ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If Marie Antoinette. had said let them eat pudding rather than cake ?

Moreover, What if Sarkozy had said it?

Time yet!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

possibly..but she never said it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wasnt it cos they had no bread she said let them eat cake?

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By *emima_puddlefuckCouple
over a year ago

hexham

"If Marie Antoinette. had said let them eat pudding rather than cake ?

leaves before her pedantry takes over

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By *emima_puddlefuckCouple
over a year ago

hexham

"Wasnt it cos they had no bread she said let them eat cake?"

sexy and intelligent

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They're French,They would have just found something else to be revolting over

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Wasnt it cos they had no bread she said let them eat cake?

sexy and intelligent

Pedantry? didnt he play up front for Madrid a few years back? Or am I thinking of a pastry based product?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"They're French,They would have just found something else to be revolting over"

Just being French is enough to be revolted by! Tongue in cheek guys!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Je ne sais absolument pas...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No, these days they would just have a 3 day national strike.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Since when has anything French been important.

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden

"Since when has anything French been important.

THIS!

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By *landPeggyCouple
over a year ago

Holland !

"Since when has anything French been important.

soixante neuf

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Since when has anything French been important.

THIS!"

What is THIS? I'm far too young! *Doffs cap to Funkey*

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Since when has anything French been important.

soixante neuf"

best newspaper headline I ever saw. Evening Standard

'Joyce Grenfell dies at 69'

they say it's the quiet ones

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Wasnt it cos they had no bread she said let them eat cake?

sexy and intelligent

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By *am sampsonMan
over a year ago

cwmbran

isnt the cake referred to a type of rough bread they had at the time with little nutritiomal value

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

It wasnt marie antionette that said those words, its just claimed that she said them. Cant remember who actually said them some french woman

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"isnt the cake referred to a type of rough bread they had at the time with little nutritiomal value"

It's brioche..which is more refined so more expensive. so she was being facetious.If she had said it.Which she didn't

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By *amslam1000Man
over a year ago

willenhall

our government must have a plan feed us shite make us so fat we cant revolt

seems to be workinh in the states

lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What Marie Antoinette said, when told that the peasents were starving as they had no cheap bread, was let them eat expensive bread. On this basis, the English translation of her statement is true, at least etemologicaly , if not in the spirit of the phrase.

The french Revolution was aimed far more at the aristocracy as they paid very few taxes and hugely abused their privaledged positions (take note you bankers and corporations....).

The royalty of France were not executed until some time into the revolution as they were seen, by the common people, as the sacred saviors of the body politic. It was not until they failed to affect significant reform on the upper classes that their heads were hopped off.....

So, yes, the French Revolution would still have happened had Marie Antoinette said let them eat pudding (or baps or buns or any other bread related product....)

GP (or ninja historian)

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By *aucy3Couple
over a year ago

glasgow

only the french,would see cake as the poor option.

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By *waymanMan
over a year ago

newcastle

"If Marie Antoinette. had said let them eat pudding rather than cake ?

Yes.

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

Would Jean Michel Jarre have beaten the Beatles to the song?

Who knows.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It wasnt marie antionette that said those words, its just claimed that she said them. Cant remember who actually said them some french woman"

That would be Louis XIVs Queen Marie Thérèse, nearly a century before Antoinette...

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