r/shittyaskhistory • u/Snake_Eyes_163 • 10h ago
When Marie Antoinette said, “Let them eat cake” was it a serious suggestion?
Was this a serious suggestion and she was just so out of touch that she thought it would be possible to provide cake to the starving peasants?
Or was this a casual dismissal of the problem that the peasants had no bread, as if to say, “that’s not my problem.“