The Truth About Marie Antoinette and "Let Them Eat Cake"

→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/todayifoundoutsubscribe →Why Do Superheroes Wear Their Underwear on the Outside?: http://bit.ly/1Ow7J0K Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut The Queen of Baseball http://bit.ly/1CWHS0y Why Some Countries Drive on the Right and Some on the Left http://bit.ly/1MpMkZ1 In this video: Marie Antoinette never said “let them eat cake”. Now, I know what some of you are thinking, “Of course she didn’t, she spoke French!” But, in fact, she didn’t say “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche” either. In fact, this saying in France actually pre-dated her arrival there by anywhere from about thirty years to as much as a century. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/12/marie-antoinette-never-said-let-them-eat-cake/ Sources: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/550/did-marie-antoinette-really-say-let-them-eat-cake http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Theresa_of_Spain http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/antoinettemarie/a/histmyths4.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette Image Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Marie_Antoinette_1767.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Marie_Antoinette_Young4.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Ex%C3%A9cution_de_Marie_Antoinette_le_16_octobre_1793.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau_(painted_portrait).jpg http://uploads4.wikiart.org/images/allan-ramsay/jean-jacques-rousseau.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Kaiserin_Maria_Theresia_(HRR).jpg/826px-Kaiserin_Maria_Theresia_(HRR).jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Marie_Antoinette_in_Muslin_dress.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Adolf_Ulrik_Wertm%C3%BCller_-_Queen_Marie_Antoinette_of_France_and_two_of_her_Children_Walking_in_The_Park_of_Trianon_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Marie_Antoinette_by_L._L._P%C3%A9rin-Salbreux.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Marie_Antoinette_Adult.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/La_Fayette_and_Marie_Antoinette_6th_october_1789.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Marie-Antoinette,_1775_-_Mus%C3%A9e_Antoine_L%C3%A9cuyer2.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Marie-Antoinette_par_Elisabeth_Vig%C3%A9e-Lebrun_-_1783.jpg http://s02.radikal.ru/i175/1007/1a/4f67dd53c7ad.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Portrait_of_Marie_Antoinette,_Queen_of_France,_by_Vige%C3%A9-Lebrun,_at_New_Orleans_Museum_of_Art.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Louise_Elisabeth_Vig%C3%A9e-Lebrun_-_Marie-Antoinette_de_Lorraine-Habsbourg,_reine_de_France_et_ses_enfants_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/800px-Louise_Elisabeth_Vig%C3%A9e-Lebrun_-_Marie-Antoinette_de_Lorraine-Habsbourg,_reine_de_France_et_ses_enfants_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/MarieAntoinette1769-70.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=French_Revolution#/media/File:Execution_of_Louis_XVI.jpg http://images1.fanpop.com/images/photos/2300000/Marie-Antoinette-kings-and-queens-2384940-1024-768.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Marie_Antoinette#/media/File:Marie_Antoinette_at_the_Temple_Tower.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Hinrichtung_Ludwig_des_XVI.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Louis_Charles_of_France6.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/QueenMarie-AntoinetteRevolutionaryTribunal.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Comite_revolutionnaire.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Marie_Antoinette_Execution.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Wedding_of_Louis_%26_Antoinette.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Marie_Antoinette_by_Joseph_Ducreux.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Chateau_de_Saint-Cloud_Cour_DHonneur.jpg