“Let them eat cake” — the phrase that has come to describe how preposterously the aristocracy is with the common man — is oft attributed to Marie Antionette, even though she likely never said it. In fact, as the History Channel noted, the phrase was floating around for more than a century before the French Revolution did away with both Marie’s reign and her head. A version of the phrase — apocryphally uttered after the queen was told that the peasants had no bread — was reportedly uttered first by Marie-Thérèse, the Spanish princess who married French King Louis XIV in the 17th century. Wh…