Historical Nonfiction

Marie Antoinette, when hearing about the starving peasants and Parisians’ unrest, actually said “Let them eat brioche.” Brioche is a sweet bread, eaten by royalty and nobility in France. She was essentially saying, give them our bread. Which is really a very kind thing to do. Unfortunately, that didn’t quite tally with what the Revolutionaries wanted to think of her, so they started what has proved to be an extremely successful smear campaign that most still believe today.

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