Let Them Eat Cake is a British sitcom starring Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders set in France, 1782, just seven years before the French Revolution. It is one of the few programmes in which French ...

The phrase stems from the French Revolution and Queen Marie Antoinette being told that those in poverty didn’t have any bread, to which she is said to have replied, “Let them eat cake.” ...

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, but ...

It’s widely believed Antoinette, the seemingly disliked queen of France, said “let them eat cake” during the French Revolution to disparage the starving poor, though the quote has been ...