‘Let them eat cake.’ Why people are blocking celebrities on TikTok after the Met Gala
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May 9, 2024A TikTok star named Hailey Bailey attended the recently past met gala, uploading a TikTok video of her night while showing her over-the-top look at the Met Gala lip-synching to an audio of Sofia
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In 1774, after shortages caused bread riots known as the Flour Wars, but she and Louis were still well received at his coronation:
"It is at the same time amazing and wonderful to be so well received two months after the [bread] riots and in spite of of the high price of bread which unfortunately continues. … It is certain that when people who are suffering treat us so well, we are even more obligated to work for their happiness."
In 1789, after the October March on Versailles, when she was personally targeted for assassination, her guards were executed and their heads paraded in front of her, and the royal family was forced to move to Paris under threat of violence:
"I hope that if there is no lack of bread, many things will be righted. I am in touch with the people; militiamen, market women; they all hold out their hand to me, and I hold out mine to them … The people, this morning, asked us to stay. I told them on behalf of the king, who was at my side, that it depended on them whether we stayed or not; that we asked for nothing better; that all hatred must cease; that we would flee in horror from any bloodshed whatsoever. Those closest to me swore that it was all over. I told the market women to go tell others what we had just said to each other."
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