The phrase “Let them eat cake” is commonly attributed to whom?
Florence Nightingale
Cleopatra
Joan of Arc
Marie Antoinette
“Let them eat cake” is a famous quote attributed to Marie-Antoinette, the queen of France during the French Revolution. As the story goes, it was the queen’s response upon being told that her starving peasant subjects had no bread to eat. Because cake is more expensive than bread, the anecdote has been cited as an example of Marie-Antoinette’s obliviousness to the conditions and daily lives of ordinary people. Historians sympathetic to the revolution often employ this story to illustrate the selfishness of the French aristocracy during that era.
The correct answer is Marie Antoinette.