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Who said: Let them eat cake?

You probably remember that history lesson in school like it was yesterday. 1789 The French Revolution is in full swing. The Parisian poor riot because the people have no bread, and Queen Marie Antoinette - insensitively indifferent, trying to joke or just out of natural stupidity - finds nothing better than to suggest that they eat cakes instead of bread.

Problem number one is that they weren't cakes, they were brioches (the original French text is Qu'ils mangentde la brioche). According to Alan Davidson and his Oxford Culinary Guide, "Brioche in the XNUMXth century was only a slightly enriched (with a modest amount of butter and eggs) roll, essentially not far removed from good white bread." So the proposal of the queen can be considered an attempt to do a good deed: they say, if the people want bread, give them what is better.

And everything would be fine, only Marie Antoinette did not say anything like that. The phrase has been actively circulating in the press since 1760 - to illustrate the decomposition of the aristocracy. And Jean-Jacques Rousseau generally claimed to have heard it back in 1740.

The last of Marie Antoinette's biographers, Lady Anthony Fraser, attributes this statement to a completely different queen - Marie Theresa, wife of Louis XIV, the "Sun King", although in reality anyone could say it: the eighteenth century did not lack noble ladies . It is also possible that the famous phrase was generally coined for propaganda purposes.

Another story is known, according to which it was Marie Antoinette who introduced France to the croissants allegedly brought from her native Vienna. To us, this myth also seems unlikely, since the first mention of croissants in France refers only to the 1853 year.

Interestingly, around the same time, itinerant Austrian confectioners brought the puff pastry recipe to Denmark. Since then, the famous "Danish buns" are known in this country as wienerbrod ("Viennese bread").

In Vienna, they are called Kopenhagener (that is, "Copenhagen" (German).).

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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The nine-year reign of Tutankhamun was very ordinary. He became famous only due to the fact that his tomb was discovered in 1922 in an unlooted state. This tomb, apparently inferior in luxury to the tombs of the great pharaohs, nevertheless contained such priceless treasures that its discovery struck the imagination of the world community and greatly increased the widespread interest in archeology.

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