歷的錯誤引語(8)

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3. Marie Antoinette
    Quote: “If they have no bread, let them eat cake!” (“S'ils n'ont plus de pain, qu'ils mangent de la brioche.”)
    This misquote has been covered on this site before, but I wanted to include it just in case some people haven't seen it (it is a pet peeve of mine). Queen Marie Antoinette is still much maligned over this quote - and she never even said it! It was actually from the book Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in which he said: “I recalled the make-shift of a great princess who was told that the peasants had no bread and who replied: 'Let them eat brioche'.” The attribution to Queen Marie is no doubt anti-royal propaganda during a very troubled time in French history.
    瑪麗·安托瓦內(nèi)特
    引語:如果他們沒有面包,就讓他們吃蛋糕。
    這句錯誤的引語在本網(wǎng)站已經(jīng)提到過,我把它納入進(jìn)來以防有人沒有留意到?,旣悺ぐ餐型邇?nèi)特王后至今還因這句引語而被中傷,但她從來沒有說過這樣的話。這實際上出自讓·雅克·盧梭的《懺悔錄》一書。書中寫道:“我記得一位偉大的公主在被告知農(nóng)民們沒有面包吃的時候,漫不經(jīng)心的回答說:”讓他們吃蛋糕吧'.“將這引語說成出自瑪麗王后之口,這毫無疑問是在法國歷那個混亂的年代的一種反對王室的宣傳。