Most historical facts throughout the years are concrete and simply undeniable, like WWII ending September 2, 1945, or Martin Luther King being assassinated on 4 April, 1968. But, sometimes the history books get things a little mixed up, and people’s perception of apparently huge historical moments become incredible warped. We dug up a few and investigated, so here are 6 historical facts that aren’t actually true.
Queen Antoinette was widely despised by the majority of french peasants, but she never actually told 18th-Century starving poor community to “eat cake.” In his book Confessions, Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote the line: “Make-shift of a great princess who was told that the peasants had no bread and replied: ‘Let them eat brioche’.” It was a piece of satire and only joked that Antoinette said it in a funny way.
