Where is King Charles while "his people" starve?
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You are suggesting that King Charles is in France, but France is burning. Maybe King Charles is in Mr. Harry Windsors guest bedroom in California. If so California gets a break in the action; maybe we'll get a little fruit out of that come winter.
Actually, no, I wasn't suggesting that Chuck was in France. I was implying he was as tone-deaf as the princess who said it. (Note, it was NOT Marie Antoinette.)
"The phrase appears in book six of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's autobiographical Confessions, whose first six books were written in 1765 and published in 1782. Rousseau recounts an episode in which he was seeking bread to accompany some wine he had stolen. Feeling too elegantly dressed to go into an ordinary bakery, he recalled the words of a "great princess":[5]
At length I remembered the last resort of a great princess who, when told that the peasants had no bread, replied: "Then let them eat brioches."
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions Rousseau does not name the "great princess", and he may have invented the anecdote altogether, as the Confessions is not considered entirely factual.[6]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake
Great, thanks.