{"date":"August 10","id":"08-10","intro":["When the people of Paris howled because they had no bread to eat, Queen Marie Antoinette exclaimed: “Well, then, let them eat cake!” Such an attitude hastened the revolution."],"minutes":30,"readings":[{"author":"Edmund Burke","end":157,"start":143,"volume":24,"work":"The Revolution in France"}],"slug":"august-10","status":"proofread","title":"“Give Them Cake,” said the Queen","url":"/harvard-classics/august-10/","words":5953}