“Let them eat cake,” is one of the most famous quotes in history that has been attributed to the last queen of France prior to the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette. As Antoinette was born on this ...

On the new period drama “Marie Antoinette,” you won’t hear the title character say the famous line, “Let them eat cake.” “No, that’s actually fake news,” said Emilia Schüle, 30, who stars as the ...

Marie Antoinette earns a big-screen makeover in "Farewell, My Queen," a lavish French period piece based an inspired fictional fancy spun from real history. This is not the "Let them eat cake" queen ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The V&A Museum's exhibition on the 18 th century French queen, Marie Antoinette, has finally arrived. The ...

Everyone’s heard it: “Let them eat cake”. It’s quoted in movies, textbooks, and dinner-table debates. But there’s a twist—Marie Antoinette probably never said those words. Historians have traced the ...

As the queen of France, Marie Antoinette’s infamous extravagances — the gowns, the jewelry, the sky-high hairdo — became symbols of outrageous excess. Her public image fueled the fires of the French ...