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The Queen Mum had a backbone of steel, but she also had a great funny bone!!!
Elsa M. said:Qu’ils mangent de la brioche! ("Let them eat bread rolls!") - Marie Antoinette (*1755 +1793), Queen of France.
Marie Antoinette is reported to have said this famous sentence, when told the people had no bread.
Australian said:I thought it was "Let them eat cake"? Maybe I am wrong though.
Quin said:I believe Elsa M's post is accurate.
We're not sure who said "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche". Jean-Jacques Rousseau attributed these words to "a great princess", in book 6 of his Confessions (which was written 2 or 3 years before Marie-Antoinette arrived in France, in 1770). A recent biographer has claimed that this famous sentence was actually spoken by Marie-Therese (wife of Louis XIV), one hundred years before Marie Antoinette...Australian said:I thought it was "Let them eat cake"? Maybe I am wrong though.
Elsa M. said:We're not sure who said "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche". Jean-Jacques Rousseau attributed these words to "a great princess", in book 6 of his Confessions (which was written 2 or 3 years before Marie-Antoinette arrived in France, in 1770). A recent biographer has claimed that this famous sentence was actually spoken by Marie-Therese (wife of Louis XIV), one hundred years before Marie Antoinette...
Anyway, the word "cake" is a mistranslation of the French "brioche".
If Marie Antoinette ever said this sentence, she didn't mean "gateau", but a flour-and-water paste that the baker would scrape, at the end of the day, from his pans, to set them outside the door, for the beggars. Whoever said this sentence would be simply meaning: if they cannot afford the bourgeois bread, they can avail themselves of the peasants' "poor bread"; something like bread rolls...
Some scholars have stated also another explanation: that, at the time, the law obliged the baker to sell a fancier loaf for the price of the cheap one, whenever the cheap ones were all gone. So, the idea was that the bread shortage could be alleviated, if the law was enforced against profiteering bakers...
The truth is that we will probably never know who said this famous phrase... but anyway I'll say : let the myth stay like that...
Australian said:"My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt"
(Princess Margaret)
RhapsodyBrat said:isn't this quote also credited to Princess Anne, but hers was "My children are not royal. Their grandmother just happened to be the Queen." (or something like that)?
ladybelline said:-On his deathbed, Louis XIV's farewell to his second and secret wife, the Marquise de Maintenon: "Considering how old you are, I'm happy to think you'll soon join me!!" (How gentle!!! )
ladybelline said:-On his deathbed, Louis XIV's farewell to his second and secret wife, the Marquise de Maintenon: "Considering how old you are, I'm happy to think you'll soon join me!!" (How gentle!!! )
Oh such sweet & gentle words.
Thats something I want to here. "Your getting up there in age so I'll be seeing you really soon!"
Her Majesty has a good sense of humour!!!!Everyone heard that the Queen was on this Greek Island and so they all hired small boats to follow Britannia. The Queen, Lady Pamela Hicks and a bodyguard were on the beach when this small craft stopped and shouted, "Have you seen the Queen?!". The Queen jumped up and yelled, "She went that way! She went that way!". The craft sped off and the Queen could enjoy her sunbathing.
BeatrixFan said:I love the one about the Queen's holiday to Greece. Everyone heard that the Queen was on this Greek Island and so they all hired small boats to follow Britannia. The Queen, Lady Pamela Hicks and a bodyguard were on the beach when this small craft stopped and shouted, "Have you seen the Queen?!". The Queen jumped up and yelled, "She went that way! She went that way!". The craft sped off and the Queen could enjoy her sunbathing.
Some more great quotes from the Queen Mother....she was a witty lady.
"When one of you young queens has finished, can you bring this old queen a drink?" (she said this to members of her staff, who were largely gay)
"Was this yours? Oh, could you take it?" (after someone threw a roll of toilet paper at her)
"Oh, I understand that perfectly. That's how we feel in Scotland too, but the English won't allow it." (after an Afrikaner in South Africa said they didn't like royalty and thought that S.A. should become a republic)
Anticipating the inevitable criticism of his refusal to sign the abortion law as an attack on democratic rights,king Baudouin asserted his own right to freedom of conscience.
"I know by acting in this way I have not chosen an easy path and that I risk not being understood by many of my fellow citizens. To those who may be shocked by my decision, I ask them: Is it right that I am the only Belgian citizen to be forced to act against his conscience in such a crucial area? Is the freedom of conscience sacred for everyone except for the king?"
"If I hadn’t done this [refused to sign the abortion law], I would have been sick my entire life for having betrayed the Lord"
why is the big lettertype neccesary, it is like if you are shouting