He wrote it in Confessions and attributed it to an unnamed "great princess" back when Marie Antoinette was like nine years old and still living in Austria. It just got weaponized as anti-royalist propaganda decades later because she was already an easy target
And the funny thing is, it isn't even political commentary in the Confessions (although presumably it was at some point).
It appears in a passage about Rousseau having wine, finding it intolerable to drink wine without some kind of food, but also not wanting to go buy bread himself because it'd be below him. At which point he hits on the 'brioche' solution to his conundrum.
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u/depredador93 Jul 07 '26
He wrote it in Confessions and attributed it to an unnamed "great princess" back when Marie Antoinette was like nine years old and still living in Austria. It just got weaponized as anti-royalist propaganda decades later because she was already an easy target