Marie Antoinette and the Cake That Was Never Eaten

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:07]Madam, this came from Paris before dawn.

[00:00:10]They are printing your name beneath the line, "Kill mongrel and the lapdog." I have never spoken those words.

[00:00:15]And yet Paris will believe them.

[00:00:18]They cannot accept that a queen might be kind, madam.

[00:00:22]They never could.

[00:00:24]Madam, they say the queen [music] laughed when told of our hunger.

[00:00:27]They say she said, "Let them eat cake."

[00:00:29]And God forgive her.

[00:00:31]My children eat the bark from the trees and she eats cake.

[00:00:35]I do not blame her, madam.

[00:00:37]I blame the men who carry her name to the gutter.

[00:00:41]Jean-Jacques, what do you write that makes you smile so to the candle?

[00:00:49]>> [music] >> A great princess of my own invention, Therese. Marie Antoinette is a child of nine in Vienna. They have your name on every pamphlet now.

[00:01:01]Paris is marching on Versailles by morning.

[00:01:04]Then let them remember the cake. France will need a face to forgive itself. Mine will do.

[00:01:10]Then I shall stand beside you at the gate, Antoinette.

[00:01:13]We will face them together.