#11: cakes and chaos
three cakes, two birthdays and one wedding
‘Let them eat cake.’ Marie Antoinette, who was Queen of France during the French revolution, might have said, or not, after she was informed that her subjects were starving and that they had no bread to eat. For one, the French sentence was ‘Qu’ils mangent de la brioche,’ and brioche isn’t cake, but a bread enriched with eggs and cream and/or butter (as…
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