Rousseau recounts an episode in which he was seeking bread to accompany some wine he had stolen. The phrase appears in book six of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's autobiographical Confessions, whose first six books were written in 1765 and published in 1782. While the phrase is commonly attributed to Marie Antoinette, it was coined by 1765, when she was 9 years old and had never been to France, and it was only attributed to her decades after her death. The quote is taken to reflect either the princess's frivolous disregard for the starving peasants or her poor understanding of their plight. The French phrase mentions brioche, a bread enriched with butter and eggs, considered a luxury food. " Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase " Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", said to have been spoken in the 18th century by "a great princess" upon being told that the peasants had no bread. OL1730832W Page_number_confidence 92.82 Pages 598 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200921182143 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 924 Scandate 20200917143759 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780307277749 Tts_version 4.Marie Antoinette, to whom " qu'ils mangent de la brioche" is traditionally, but incorrectly, attributed
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