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Saturday, December 25, 2010

Sweet Baked Goods




Connect and give the whole story

8 comments:

Sanskar Jain said...

The connect is "let them eat the cake"
Rousseau mentioned the line in "Confessions"
Mary Antoinette is wrongly said to have said it.
Mary Theresea, wife of Louis XIV(hade to wiki it) had said it before Antoinette.

Shruti said...

"if there is no bread let them eat cake." - Marie Antoinette a little before meeting the tumbrils..

Kaushik said...

t has been suggested that she was the unnamed "great princess" who, according to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, originally said "Let them eat cake" (and not Marie Antoinette of Austria almost a century later)

Siddarth Pai said...

Jean Rosseau

MArie Antoinette

Maria Theresa (mother of Antoinette)

Rosseau reported in his book confessions that an unnamed princess said that the peasants should eat cake if they have no bread
That priincess is Antoinette

Theresa is her mother

thats the whole story

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Anonymous said...

connect is french revolution...
A-rousseau
B-marie antoinette..
C-????

Pranav Santurkar said...

the connect is the phrase" let them eat cake".
Jean jacques rousseau (Picture 1) attributes the first usage of this phrase by queen marie antoinette(pic 2) in response to the peasants not getting bread to eat. this reference is made in rousseaus book confessions. however historians claim that there is no particular reference to the name of the queen who uttered these words.
infact the queens best selling english biographer LAdy antonia fraser attributes the first usage of this phrase to Marie theresa(pic 3) 100 years before marie antoinette allegedly invented this phrase.

Nihar said...

Rosseau
Marie Antoinette
Maria Therese

Well, Maria Therese was the mother of Maie Antoinette.

This popular phrase, "Let them eat cake", attributed to Marie Antoinette, has been taken from Rosseau's Les COnfesions, where he attributed the quote to a princess, not specifically naming Marie.

Nihar said...

hey, can you just the question, again?
The third pic is that of the Infanta Maria teresa,
Not Maria Therese, of the Hapsburg line(whom we were referring to, as the mother of Marie Antoinette)

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Sweet Baked Goods




Connect and give the whole story

8 comments:

Sanskar Jain said...

The connect is "let them eat the cake"
Rousseau mentioned the line in "Confessions"
Mary Antoinette is wrongly said to have said it.
Mary Theresea, wife of Louis XIV(hade to wiki it) had said it before Antoinette.

Shruti said...

"if there is no bread let them eat cake." - Marie Antoinette a little before meeting the tumbrils..

Kaushik said...

t has been suggested that she was the unnamed "great princess" who, according to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, originally said "Let them eat cake" (and not Marie Antoinette of Austria almost a century later)

Siddarth Pai said...

Jean Rosseau

MArie Antoinette

Maria Theresa (mother of Antoinette)

Rosseau reported in his book confessions that an unnamed princess said that the peasants should eat cake if they have no bread
That priincess is Antoinette

Theresa is her mother

thats the whole story

Also, could you add us to your blog?
We've already added you

http://the-quizzard.blogspot.com/

Thanks

Anonymous said...

connect is french revolution...
A-rousseau
B-marie antoinette..
C-????

Pranav Santurkar said...

the connect is the phrase" let them eat cake".
Jean jacques rousseau (Picture 1) attributes the first usage of this phrase by queen marie antoinette(pic 2) in response to the peasants not getting bread to eat. this reference is made in rousseaus book confessions. however historians claim that there is no particular reference to the name of the queen who uttered these words.
infact the queens best selling english biographer LAdy antonia fraser attributes the first usage of this phrase to Marie theresa(pic 3) 100 years before marie antoinette allegedly invented this phrase.

Nihar said...

Rosseau
Marie Antoinette
Maria Therese

Well, Maria Therese was the mother of Maie Antoinette.

This popular phrase, "Let them eat cake", attributed to Marie Antoinette, has been taken from Rosseau's Les COnfesions, where he attributed the quote to a princess, not specifically naming Marie.

Nihar said...

hey, can you just the question, again?
The third pic is that of the Infanta Maria teresa,
Not Maria Therese, of the Hapsburg line(whom we were referring to, as the mother of Marie Antoinette)