“ Tedy tomu, co je známo z hlášky připisované Marii Antoinettě. Když královna Francie viděla bouřící se lidi a dozvěděla se, že nemají chleba, reagovala větou: „Tak proč nejedí koláče?“” - Ot, ale tohle marie antoinetta zrejme nikdy nerekla ,))
The phrase was supposedly said by Marie Antoinette in 1789, during one of the famines in France during the reign of her husband, King Louis XVI. But it was not attributed to her until half a century later. Although anti-monarchists never cited the anecdote during the French Revolution, it acquired great symbolic importance in subsequent historical accounts when pro-revolutionary commentators employed the phrase to denounce the upper classes of the Ancien Régime as oblivious and rapacious. As one biographer of the Queen notes, it was a particularly powerful phrase because "the staple food of the French peasantry and the working class was bread, absorbing 50 percent of their income, as opposed to 5 percent on fuel; the whole topic of bread was therefore the result of obsessional national interest."[5]