„Qu’ils mangent de la brioche. Mon dieu! Dann sollen sie eben Kuchen essen.“

Archduchess of Austria. After her husband’s accession to the throne, she was Queen of France and Navarre. Corsets caused breathing problems from an early age. Initially popular, she was guillotined under the Ancien Régime, the target of massive, sometimes polemical, criticism, and nine months after her husband. She is credited with the anecdote that the poor who cannot afford bread should eat cake instead. However, this saying was quoted years before her accession to the throne. It could be a wandering anecdote, which was also ascribed to the first wife of Louis XIV.

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