The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for August 20, 2009

It was the baker!

Actually, she never said that. In Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s “Confessions,” he tells the story of a young princess who supposedly had said that. He wrote that about 75 years before Marie Antoinette was born. She was also Austrian, not French.

Who says that comics today are for adults and not kids?

Actually, Marie Antoinette survived and had four children. I am the sole descendant. Send $$$ to www.itry.com and we can put the rightful king in power

Sacre-Bleu! (cheese)

CAKE OR DEATH!? Ummmm… cake please.

Cake AND Death. Maybe it’s a chocolate cake…Death by Chocolate Cake ;-)

and , of course, the chef’s name is :

Chef Boy-Ar-Guillotine

Edcole: Yes, but while growing up in Austria, her family had a French chef who DID actually threaten her once. I read it on the internet.

Zee cake is a lie! Zee cake is a lie!

i’d rather have an ice cream cake, the heck with her cake

I once had a doll that I cut the hair off of. I stopped at the jugular though

When I was first told the “let them eat cake” story, it was explained to me that Marie Antoinette was so naive about the reality of most people’s lives that, when she was told the poor had no bread, her response was to suggest they eat brioche. “Brioche” was thereafter exaggerated or mistranslated into “cake”. I have no idea whether that could have been true, but it’s my understanding that no such incident ever occurred.