Kate Williams
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in seventeen sixty five, so when Marie Antoinette was about nine, he said
I'm going to a bakery, but I think my clothes are too nice.
And then I remembered a great princess who said of the poor, let them eat cake.
So this is when Marie Antoinette was nine.
No one knew who she was in France.
I mean it it's totally impossible it would have been her.
And it just then becomes attributed to her in the eighteen forties and becomes How
a myth.
That we can't ever shake off.
It's a bit like Catherine the Great, her contemporary, who who later writes with some really helpful advice in the midst of the revolution.
Catherine the Great writes to say, Well, um, kings should just do as they please and carry on in their own way.
You're like, Yeah, thanks, Catherine.
Great advice, yeah, very useful.
She the myth of her and the horse is is created later and can't be dislodged.
But so n Maritworth did never say let them eat cake.
But as to how much she comprehended, understood, took seriously.
the riots of the poor about bread, no one did.
Versailles was this.
bubble, this elite bubble.
And they thought that if you just let the poor come in and watch you eat, that's enough.
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