Kate Williams
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first heard Sep 2026
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There's the huge debt after the Seven Years War, tax collecting is very inefficient and mainly falls on the poor.
Got that much money anyway.
Aristocrats aren't paying any taxes.
Aristocrats aren't paying taxes.
Some areas pay more than others.
The court, Versailles, is insanely expensive.
It is insanely expensive.
But the real cost is these wars that France has been engaged in and the fact that there's no tax collection.
And it's a very sort of archaic, I would say, in terms of centralized bureaucracy and the civil service.
It's really creaky.
And so Marie-Antoinette is in this court, and what she's been trained to do is be the fairy.
at the top of the Christmas tree and organize this entire court.
And yet also there are these waves of anger about people's lives.
Just before the coronation, so when Marie Antoinette and Louis become king and queen, just before the coronation we have what is known as the flower wars.
battles over the rising price of bed and and riots, and that is when it is said to have been the moment when the Queen said, Let the Meat Cake.
But it's not actually true.
It's it the let the meat cake is actually totally untrue.
First of all, the quote was about brioche.
So it was about let the meat brioche.
But it was actually written by Jean Jacques Rousseau in his confessions.
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