Apparently she didn't want us to eat cake....

Mostly everyone knows the quote "Let them eat cake!" attributed to Marie Antoinette, but little do they know she was not actually talking about cake. The actual quote is "let them eat pastry." Though not very different, it's still a misquote. She was misquoted so many times to where it just stayed the wrong quote. She was not only misquoted, but also this quote was misattributed to Marie Antoinette when it's source is Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau first used his quote in his autobiography, "Confessions", and when the "great princess" is told there is no bread for the prisoners to eat, says "Well, let them eat brioche." This book was written when Marie Antoinette was 10 years old living in Austria. It was not until she was 18 that she married Louis XVI. It is said that the quote was attributed to her because she was not liked and was frequently accused of doing terrible things.  But the example that makes the most sense was that she had a heart for the poor and tried to help their lives be better so when she found out all they had was bread, she said "let them eat cake" and the rest was (literally) history.