DAY 310.1 | ‘Let them eat cake!’

"Marie-Antoinette’s last-ditch effort to save her head: “I said, ‘Let them eat cake* and ice cream!’"
 

"So cries a moribund Marie-Antoinette as she climbs the final step to the guillotine in a satirical The Far Side cartoon by illustrator Gary Larson. Marie-Antoinette, of course, never said, “Let them eat cake,” but then she didn’t do a lot of things that were alleged by the Parisian rumor mill in the years from 1789 to her execution in 1793. Yet it was these very rumors that ultimately led to her death..." — James McCammon

* Qu'ils mangent de la brioche !

RELATED:  La Chapelle expiatoire (The Expiatory Chapel), 29, rue Pasquier, Paris. Métro: Saint-Augustin/Saint-Lazare

The "Expiatory Chapel" is a monument dedicated to the French Royal family in the heart of Paris. It lies on the site of a former Revolutionary cemetery where King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette were buried after they were executed in 1793.

👉 Read more on Wikipedia: The "Chapelle expiatoire" ("Expiatory Chapel") is a chapel located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The chapel was constructed on the grounds where King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette were buried after they were guillotined on what is nowadays the "Place de la Concorde."

King Louis XVIII raised this monument to consecrate the place where the mortal remains of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette, transferred on 21 January 1815 to the royal tomb of Saint-Denis, reposed for 21 years.

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