MARIE ANTOINETTE'S ADVICE.
TO TEE SBITOB OT THX PRESS. Sir, Iu one of your leading articles you mention the saying of Marie Antoinette, often quoted: "If the poor cannot get bread let them eat cake." Though I cannot give my authority, 1 remember > reading somewhere, . rears ago, an explanation of this. The mistake, the author said, lies in the meaning of the word "cake." In her time, the French bread in peas-' ant homes was baked in wood ashes. The outside of the loaf, covered with ashes, was r>ut aside, and called.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19114, 24 September 1927, Page 17
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