People look at a portrait of Queen Marie-Antoinette by Joseph Ducreux (1769)(Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP) It's one of history's most famous quotes, synonymous with the French revolution ...

The French Revolution ... (But Marie Antoinette probably didn't say that, either.) | Imagno / Getty Images As legend would have it, Marie Antoinette was informed that French peasants had no ...

THE story of Marie ... have lit the fuse of the French Revolution and the storming of the Bastille with the line “Let them eat cake!” when told that starving peasants could not afford ...

Marie Antoinette was the queen of France from 1774 to 1793. She was among the key figures during the French Revolution and was infamously associated ... eat brioche”, as her response to the starving ...

The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...

Marie Antoinette is famous for her decadence. Or her supposed decadence, anyway. By the time she was executed at the guillotine on October 16, 1793 (nine months after her husband, King Louis XVI ...