Yes, Fake News has been fake news, literally always. Marie Antoinette never said this, or any version of it. It first appeared in a book by Rousseau, as a quote attributed to "a great princess" thought to be Maria-Therese, who lived 100 years before Marie Antoinette. The book was published when Marie Antoinette was 11, before she even arrived in France.
Yes, Fake News has been fake news, literally always. Marie Antoinette never said this, or any version of it. It first appeared in a book by Rousseau, as a quote attributed to "a great princess" thought to be Maria-Therese, who lived 100 years before Marie Antoinette. The book was published when Marie Antoinette was 11, before she even arrived in France.