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PeckishOwl — Oakenstill #39: The simple solution
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ABOUT THIS OAKENSTILL"Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche ", supposedly spoken by "a great princess" upon learning that the peasants had no bread. Since brioche was made from dough enriched with butter and eggs, making it more expensive than bread, the quote reflected the princess's disregard for the peasants.
The quotation, as attributed to Marie Antoinette, was claimed to have been uttered during one of the famines that occurred in France during the reign of her husband, Louis XVI . Upon being alerted that the people were suffering due to widespread bread shortages, the Queen is said to have replied, "Then let them eat brioche."[4] Although this anecdote was never cited by opponents of the monarchy at the time of the French Revolution , it did acquire great symbolic importance in subsequent histories when pro-revolutionary historians sought to demonstrate the obliviousness and selfishness of the French upper-classes at that time. As one biographer of the Queen notes, it was a particularly useful phrase to cite 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."
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I heard that actually some Chinese emperor is author of it and it was meat instead of brioche.
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Are you sure you don't want to let them eat lembas instead?
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But the quote wasn't from Antoinette, but from her predecessor (read it somewhere in a biography). Nice idea, though.
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And I read somewhere that evil Madame de Polignac was the one behind this quote..... but it perfectly fits that pointy-eared son of a bi---- of a birch, n'est-ce pas?
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Well, Thranduil's gonna have to earn Beorn's trust before he pulls this off.
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But Thranduil, you didn't bring cake to the party, you brought veggies and stuff (I think I recall seeing lettuce).
Veggies aren't cake. Not even carrot cake.
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Uuuuuuhhhh Thrandie be careful with that. Marie Antoinette lost her head ad the end.
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Thranduil lost his son to a dwarf... I think he would've liked loosing his head better
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He can´t blame his Son for doing so, even Galadriel was very found of that dwarf
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He blames his son to forget his own undying love for a certain handsome dwarf (whose name starts like the god of thunder and ends like the opposite of 'out', but that I shall not name... because we all know who that is^^)
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It would've been cool if you found the Sindar Elvish translation for it. XD
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