“How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale, mass-produced cake of lower class reality back into their mouths?” WealthPoorPovertyRichImperialismUpper ClassLower ClassMarie AntoinetteLet Them Eat Cake Author:M.B. Dallocchio
“First things first: Marie Antoinette never said, 'Let them eat cake.' Those words were attributed to an earlier French Queen, Marie-Therese, the wife of the Sun King Louis XIV. By 1767---a year in which Marie Antoinette was still an innocent German-speaking twelve-year-old in Austria....” FranceMarie AntoinetteLet Them Eat CakeQueen Marie Therese Book:Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di Source: Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di