What did "let them eat cake" mean?

SHE NEVER SAID THAT

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>It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

What did he mean by this?

>>1690490
>Lel, you have no bread?
>Why not just eat cake?

She thought that they were just lacking supplies of bread not extremely poor.

>anglos translate "brioche" as "cake"

Fuck 'em.

>>1690490
antoinette literally led charities to help poor people and by all <historical> accounts she was a good person

>>1690878
Then why was this myth spread and why was she killed?

>>1690889
Propaganda to fuel to flames of revolution. The French revolution was instigated by bourgie fucks, not by the people.

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>>1690889

Gonna go out on a limb and say it probably had something to do with the giant republican revolution.

>>1690895
What separates boogie fucks from the people? Didn't the people want to be freed from the oppressive monarchy?

>>1691095
the bourgies want to be in charge
the people don't care about politics as long as they have steady work and don't starve or fight in wars

>>1691095
>Aristocracy
>Bourgeoisie
>The People

The Aristocracy are in control and are oppressing everyone, but particularly the Bourgeoisie, while keeping The People happy with bread and circuses. This is because while the Bourgeosie can't take on the Aristocracy themselves, they are smart enough to rally The People into smashing the Aristocracy. The People are too dumb to do jack shit, they'll only revolt if their Bourgeosie superiors lead them in the idea.

See: The boring essays in Orwell's novel "1984".

>>1690490

Why is it that the cleavage of high class women was always downplayed in old portraits? If you look at OP's pic and have a decent grasp of anatomy it should be obvious that she'd have the upper halves of her breasts exposed.

I heard that large breasts used to be associated with a peasantry in Europe, is that why?

>>1691154
Wasn't the aristocracy at odds with the monarchy though?

>>1691178
That portrait was made when she was 14.

>>1690490
She never said that, Marie Antoinette was a saintly woman.

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>>1691235
>mfw you rub so much arsenic into your skin that you look like a 30 year old when you're only 14

>>1691254
What are some instances of her being saintly?

How is that film about her?

>>1690643
brioche is a type of cake to us. cake is a catchall term, like bread.

>>1690889
because the french revolution was full of people who literally threw children into the gutter, and killed and raped nuns before throwing their bodies in the river

>>1691218
in the time leading up to the revolution, the king was more on the side of the peasants than the aristocrats. he could have raised taxes and done other things to help the poor but the aristocracy blocked him.

>>1691425
How was the bourgeois relationship with the king during this time?

>>1690889
She was Austrian. The French citizens didn't like her from the moment she was born, and hated her the moment she was married to Louis XVI. As the revolution ramped up and paranoia over the "Austrian Plot" started ramping up, all everyone saw when they thought of her was this evil woman of blood.

>>1691997
Complicated. During the time leading up to the revolution (around 1787 when Calonne was dealing with the Assembly of Notables), they at first supported the aristocracy, because the aristocrats were ginning up public support by talks of liberty and the rights of Frenchmen. Sadly for them, they opened the genie out of the bottle, and by the time things moved the Parliament and after the day of the tiles, both the bourgeois and the people started to realize that the aristocrats weren't on their side.

By the time of the tennis court oath, the aristocrats were hated more than the king, though he was at times disliked for being controlled by arch-nobles.

>>1692169
Pretty much, the bourgeois didn't "hate" the king until around the time of the Legislative Assembly.

Cake is a euphemism for feces.

>>1690490
product substitution

porters 5 forces

>>1690490
they were invited to her party