For people today, records about Marie Antoinette might not be entirely accurate, or during the French Revolution, various reasons led to some distortions in the transmission of information.
Take the simplest example, a well-known legend now is that when Marie Antoinette heard once that the peasants were starving, she disregarded their life and death and coldly said, "Let them eat cake."
Though this saying has spread widely, even becoming an idiom similar to the Chinese "Why not eat meat paste?", there is a lack of evidence to prove that it was indeed Marie Antoinette who said it.
According to scholars' research, it was the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau who first wrote about this phrase in his "Confessions". Rousseau said that he never had the habit of never eating anything while drinking wine but always left some bread during meals.
