The tragic tale of Marie Antoinette’s death during the French Revolution is the stuff of legend. But while the story of Marie Antoinette ends with her beheading in 1793, the tragedy of her ...

It wasn't until 50 years after Marie Antoinette's death that the phrase was first written down and ascribed to her. And even then, they said, it was a rumor that wasn't true. ♪♪ But ...

In fact, the phrase was only ascribed to Marie Antoinette 50 years after her death in 1843, by the writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr in a journal called Les Guêpes. Even then, he writes of how ...