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HUNGER BRINGS DOWN ANY RULER LIKE NOTHING ELSE
November 28, 2019
As the victors’ stories goes: Remember Marie Antoinette’s famous (last) words spoken in the palace shortly before the French Revolution: “Let them eat cake”.
Marie-Antoinette arrived at Versailles from her native Austria in 1770, two or three years after Rousseau had written the above passage. Whoever the ‘great princess’ was – possibly Marie-Thérèse, it wasn’t Marie-Antoinette.
Her reputation as an indulgent socialite is difficult to shake, but it appears to be unwarranted and is a reminder that history is written by the victors. She was known to have said “It is quite certain that in seeing the people who treat us so well despite their own misfortune, we are more obliged than ever to work hard for their happiness”.
Nevertheless, the French revolutionaries thought even less of her than we do today and she was guillotined to death in 1793 for the crime of treason.
Stories tell us how badly that ended for the King and Marie when the people reached their breaking point. It always happens when large segments of the general population go to bed hungry each day. Voters will put up with a lot, but not hunger for any sustained length of time.
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