Ed Helms

It's rough.

It's rough out there for the populations run by rich douchebags.

Well, cut to a couple of years later now and the revolutionaries have taken power and King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and their kids are basically grounded.

They're under house arrest in the Tuileries Palace in the heart of Paris.

And the revolutionaries are frantically trying to reinvent their entire system of government, which is no small task.

Marie Antoinette, of course, famous for the phrase, let them eat cake.

Darn it.

Which is a very rude thing to say when people are starving and they can't get bread.

She didn't say it.

I'm so sorry.

I was going to be all smarty pants and be like, but she did it.

And you jumped on that.

And kudos to you for knowing that.

It originally appeared in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, which he wrote in 1766.

Marie Antoinette was 10 years old and she was living in Austria.

So obviously...

So it's early 1791.

This is before the revolution had gone full, just like guillotine chopping everybody's heads off.

And France is now experimenting with this brand new idea, the constitutional monarchy, where the king will share power with the population.

And spoiler alert, King Louis did not like this.