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Half Life of Facts (infosec.pub)
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[–] egrets@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I already provided the link for you to check this, but it's on the history list, under "Early Modern".

Marie Antoinette did not say "let them eat cake" when she heard that the French peasantry were starving due to a shortage of bread. The phrase was first published in Rousseau's Confessions, written when Marie Antoinette was only nine years old and not attributed to her, just to "a great princess". It was first attributed to her in 1843.

The citation is this HowStuffWorks page.