Editing Marie Antoinette (section)

==In popular culture==
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The phrase "[[let them eat cake]]" is often conventionally attributed to Marie Antoinette, but there is no evidence that she uttered it, and it is now generally regarded as a journalistic cliché.<ref>{{Harvnb|Fraser|2001|pp=xviii, 160}}; {{Harvnb|Lever|2006|pp=63–65}}; {{Harvnb|Lanser|2003|pp=273–90}}.</ref> This phrase originally appeared in Book VI of the first part of [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]'s autobiographical work ''[[Confessions (Rousseau)|Les Confessions]]'', finished in 1767 and published in 1782: "''Enfin Je me rappelai le pis-aller d'une grande Princesse à qui l'on disait que les paysans n'avaient pas de pain, et qui répondit: Qu'ils mangent de la brioche''". ("Finally I recalled the stopgap solution of a great princess who was told that the peasants had no bread, and who responded: 'Let them eat [[brioche]]'.") Rousseau ascribes these words to a "great princess", but the purported writing date precedes Marie Antoinette's arrival in France. Some think that he invented it altogether.<ref>{{Harvnb|Johnson|1990|p=17}}.</ref>

In the United States, expressions of gratitude to France for its help in the American Revolution included naming a city [[Marietta, Ohio]], in 1788.<ref>Sturtevant, pp. 14, 72.</ref> Her life has been the subject of many films, such as ''[[Marie Antoinette (1938 film)|Marie Antoinette]]'' (1938) and ''[[Marie Antoinette (2006 film)|Marie Antoinette]]'' (2006).<ref>{{Citation |last=Dyke |first=W. S. Van |title=Marie Antoinette |date=1938-08-26 |type=Biography, Drama, History |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030418/ |access-date=2024-06-01 |others=Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore |publisher=Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) |last2=Duvivier |first2=Julien}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Coppola |first=Sofia |title=Marie Antoinette |date=2006-10-20 |type=Biography, Drama, History |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0422720/ |access-date=2024-06-01 |others=Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn |publisher=Columbia Pictures, Pricel, Tohokushinsha Film Corporation (TFC)}}</ref> [[Antonia Fraser]] wrote a biography of Marie Antoinette called ''[[Marie Antoinette: The Journey]]''.<ref name="msnbc">{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna15292100 |title=Dunst puts fresh face on 'Marie Antoinette' |date=October 23, 2006 |agency=Associated Press |publisher=[[MSNBC]] |access-date=December 11, 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120916205912/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/15292100/ |archive-date=September 16, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,208285,00.html |title=Kirsten Dunst Poses as Marie Antoinette in Vogue |date=August 14, 2006 |agency=Associated Press |publisher=[[Fox News Channel]] |access-date=December 10, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070128001838/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C208285%2C00.html |archive-date=January 28, 2007}}</ref> In 2022, her story was dramatised by a [[Canal+ (French TV channel)|Canal+]] and [[BBC]] English-language [[Marie Antoinette (TV series)|television series]].