1489: "Let Them Eat Cake" is Wrong" Jan 9, 2019

The phrase 'let them eat cake' or in French "qu'ils mangent de la brioche" (it should actually be 'brioche' in English not 'cake', but it's more culturally appropriate) is attributed to a great princess—often thought to be Marie Antoinette—but this is not possible. This phrase was used in Rousseau's autobiography, written when Antoinette was nine years old; he never specified the princess, and many belief it was completely anecdotal, but history was not favorable to Antoinette, and neither is pop-culture here.
If you want more about history, watch the new Paleolinguistics video that just came out: