What does it mean to eat cake if you can't afford bread?

The meaning of this sentence is why people don't eat cakes to show the arrogance and extravagance of the nobles and their ignorance of the lower classes.

This sentence was said by the queen of Louis XVI.

When the minister told Mary that the French didn't even have bread, Mary smiled innocently and sweetly: "Then why don't they eat cake?"

Mary never said this sentence in history, but later generations vented their indignation on the queen who was keen on dressing up. The original sentence is recorded in Rousseau's Confessions.

"Finally, I remembered a great princess. She was told that the farmers had no bread. She said, "Why don't they eat cake? "

Although Rousseau only said that he was a "noble princess", some people thought that he was pointing at Mary, but the confession itself was not rigorous in historical materials.

Extended data:

Although Queen Mary's husband Louis XVI didn't like luxurious court life, Queen Mary spent money like water, often ate and drank, and even privately summoned Swedish nobles to have an affair in the palace.

The accumulated and profligate palace life became one of the reasons for the national financial emergency, and the life of the French people went from bad to worse, which eventually led to the outbreak of the French Revolution.

Queen Mary's fate is to be dragged into the street by the citizens and finally put to death by the guillotine. On June 6th, 2002, Marie Antoinette was brought to trial. She was accused of many crimes, some of which were incredible, such as incest with her son Louis XVII of France.

This kind of trial lasted several days, and in June 1793+15 10, Marie Antoinette was formally sentenced to death.

However, although her good days in Versailles are over, it is said that she is still obsessed with the life intoxicated by money, and there are ghosts wandering in the palace.

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