Talk:Marie Antoinette/@comment-2158118-20110325025029/@comment-3463158-20110325182934

I researched this and Warhawk is right. During the Bread Riots, the people and anti-monarchists spread this rumor to inspire more hatred against the Queen. The phrase first appeared in Rousseau's Confessions. This was completed in 1770, with Marie being 13-14 years old and living in Austria, so it's impossible she would say that to the French people. Rousseau states that Queen Marie Therese (Louis XIV wife) was the one to have said that, at the very least 80 years earlier. Marie Antoinette has the misfortune to be accredited this false quote almost 300 years later.