英语词汇let them eat cake的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Let them eat cake. Marie Antoinette may have said this in referring to the Paris proletariat after they pleaded for bread in 1770, but she did not invent the famous retort. Rousseau’s Con- fessions, written two or three years before the remark is attrib- uted to her, told of a “great princess” who said the same thing to her peasants at least 15 years before Marie Antoinette was born. Some claim that the thoughtless remark was circulated to dis- credit Marie, while others say she repeated it herself, and she was certainly capable of such a “little joke.” The French phrase is Qu’ils mangent de la brioche and may mean “they” should eat the outer crust (brioche) of the bread, the “stale” part as op- posed to the soft inside part.

词汇	let them eat cake
词源	Let them eat cake. Marie Antoinette may have said this in referring to the Paris proletariat after they pleaded for bread in 1770, but she did not invent the famous retort. Rousseau’s Con- fessions, written two or three years before the remark is attrib- uted to her, told of a “great princess” who said the same thing to her peasants at least 15 years before Marie Antoinette was born. Some claim that the thoughtless remark was circulated to dis- credit Marie, while others say she repeated it herself, and she was certainly capable of such a “little joke.” The French phrase is Qu’ils mangent de la brioche and may mean “they” should eat the outer crust (brioche) of the bread, the “stale” part as op- posed to the soft inside part.
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