TYPODESIGN_STRIPS: Maria Antoinette


Maria Antoinette

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3 Responses to “ TYPODESIGN_STRIPS: Maria Antoinette ”

  1. She told about brioches not croissants.

  2. Lisa says:

    I don’t like it.
    The phrase “Let them eat cake” is often attributed to Marie Antoinette. However, there is no evidence to support that she ever uttered this phrase, and it is now generally regarded as a “journalistic cliché”.[113] It originally appeared in Book VI of the first part (finished in 1767, published in 1782) of Rousseau’s putative autobiographical work, Les Confessions.

    Enfin je me rappelai le pis-aller d’une grande princesse à qui l’on disait que les paysans n’avaient pas de pain, et qui répondit : Qu’ils mangent de la brioche.
    Finally I recalled the stopgap solution of a great princess who was told that the peasants had no bread, and who responded: “Let them eat brioche.”

  3. [...] out the histories of Jesus Christ, Adolf Hitler and Marie Antoinette [...]

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