Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. J.M. Dent & Sons, 1931.
Misquoted at a minimum; likely wholly misattributed. It is unlikely Marie ever made this statement as she was 14 years old still living in Austria when this statement first appeared attributed to her (although as “Let them eat pastry!”) in "The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau” in 1903.
He was advocating the then radical notion of advertising to the middle class rather than the carriage trade as a way of breaking out of the Depression.
When Moynihan was U. S. Chief Delegate he was chided by the Soviet delegate to "take care" for his strong rhetoric lest he offend other nations.
The United States money was then on the Gold Standard. The country was growing and needed more money in circulation. But most of the gold that might be available was in England and English bankers could control much of the U. S. economy. The Populists and the Democrats wanted us to use silver to back U. S. money as there was plenty of silver in the United States. The Republicans would not relent and depression was upon the country. A half century later, it would be Republican President Richard M. Nixon, who took the United States off the gold standard. Lease was far ahead of her time.
Poverty-sticken, she had emigrated to London where she found a job at the investment bank. Then she returned to China and began to develop commercial property,
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic and educational thought.
