![]() The French phrase mentions brioche, a bread enriched with butter and eggs, considered a luxury food. "Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", said to have been spoken in the 18th century by "a great princess" upon being told that the peasants had no bread. ![]() Watching with interest the renewed unrest in my home country France, following the much rejected pension reform in conjunction with gold prices getting near a monthly $2000 close, on top of Bank of England chief economist Huw Pill saying that Britons “need to accept” they are poorer, when it came to selecting our title analogy we obviously had to go for a French revolutionary one, namely “Let them eat cake”. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.” - Ian Hamilton Finlay ![]() “I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. ![]()
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