Happy Bastille Day!
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silvercamaro
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Happy Bastille Day!
Let's celebrate. Let us eat cake.
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Re: Happy Bastille Day!
just don't lose your head about the holiday...
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Re: Happy Bastille Day!
Woohoo!!!
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Re: Happy Bastille Day! Let's set the record straight
Let them eat cake...."Qu'ils mangent de la brioche
While it is commonly attributed to Queen Marie Antoinette, there is no record of this phrase ever having been said by her. It appears in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, his autobiography (whose first six books were written in 1765, when Marie Antoinette was nine years of age, and published in 1782). The context of Rousseau's account was his desire to have some bread to accompany some wine he had stolen; however, in feeling he was too elegantly dressed to go into an ordinary bakery, he thus recollected the words of a "great princess".As he wrote in Book 6:
Enfin je me rappelai le pis-aller d’une grande princesse à qui l’on disait que les paysans n’avaient pas de pain, et qui répondit : Qu’ils mangent de la brioche.
Finally I recalled the stopgap solution of a great princess who was told that the peasants had no bread, and who responded: "Let them eat brioche."
Rousseau does not name the "great princess" and he may have invented the anecdote, as Confessions was, on the whole, a very unreliable autobiography.
While it is commonly attributed to Queen Marie Antoinette, there is no record of this phrase ever having been said by her. It appears in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, his autobiography (whose first six books were written in 1765, when Marie Antoinette was nine years of age, and published in 1782). The context of Rousseau's account was his desire to have some bread to accompany some wine he had stolen; however, in feeling he was too elegantly dressed to go into an ordinary bakery, he thus recollected the words of a "great princess".As he wrote in Book 6:
Enfin je me rappelai le pis-aller d’une grande princesse à qui l’on disait que les paysans n’avaient pas de pain, et qui répondit : Qu’ils mangent de la brioche.
Finally I recalled the stopgap solution of a great princess who was told that the peasants had no bread, and who responded: "Let them eat brioche."
Rousseau does not name the "great princess" and he may have invented the anecdote, as Confessions was, on the whole, a very unreliable autobiography.
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Re: Happy Bastille Day! Let's set the record straight
macrae1234 wrote:Let them eat cake...."Qu'ils mangent de la brioche
While it is commonly attributed to Queen Marie Antoinette, there is no record of this phrase ever having been said by her.
If Freddie Mercury says it's so, then it must be.
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Re: Happy Bastille Day!
Liberty! Equality! Fraternity!
Happy Birthday, LB!
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Anything else I forgot?
Happy Birthday, LB!
Hello from cool, cloudy Alaska.
Anything else I forgot?
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