Not only was the cake story wrongly ascribed to Marie Antoinette in the first place, but such ignora
Not only was the cake story wrongly ascribed to Marie Antoinette in the first place, but such ignorant behaviour would have been quite out of character. The unfashionably philanthropic Marie Antoinette would have been far more likely to bestow her own cake (or brioche) impulsively upon the starving people before her. - Antonia Fraser -- source link
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