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Eine Konditorei in Hannover 1969

Das Foto von Ralph Crane ist aus dem Time-Life Kochbuch "Die Küche in Deutschland.Es ist beschriftet: Hausfrauen stehen in einer Konditorei in Hannover vor einer reichen Auswahl an Sahnestücken, Torten und Obsttorten.

A pastry shop in Hanover 1969

The photo by Ralph Crane is part of the Time-life cookbook "The Cooking Of Germany"(1969). The subtitle says: "Housewifes in a pastryshop in Hannover with an extensive selection of cream-cakes, tarts and fruit-tarts."

"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche"

"Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of theFrench phrase "qu'ils mangent de la brioche", supposedly said by a French princess upon learning that the peasants had no bread. As brioche is a luxury bread enriched with eggs and butter, it would reflect the princess's obliviousness to the nature of a famine.

Although commonly attributed to Queen Marie Antoinette there is no record of these words ever having been uttered by her; they first appear in the confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, his putative autobiographical work (completed in 1769, when Marie Antoinette was 13), where he wrote the following:

"Enfin je me rappelai le pis-aller d’une grande princesse à qui l’on disait que les paysans n’avaient pas de pain, et qui répondit : Qu’ils mangent de la brioche.- Finally I recalled the last resort of a great princess who was told that the peasants had no bread, and who responded: "Let them eat brioche."

Rousseau does not name the "great princess" and there is speculation that he invented the anecdote, which has no other sources.

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