French Revolution - Questions

[Jessica]

Revolutionary Life
Although the causes of the French Revolution had existed for years, the events of 1789 sparked the beginning of the revolution.

IMAGES:
Tri-color badge (with words "egalite" - equality and "liberte" - liberty)
After a failed harvest caused bread prices to increase, about 6000 Parisian women marched on Versailles.
Symbols of the revolution carried the message of liberty, equality, and fraternity--or death. Words on it: unite indivisibilite de la republique liberte egalite fraternite oulamort
(These are French words, I guess the meaning is in the sentence)
*Since I can't show you what exactly the images look like, try to picture it in your head.

REFLECTING ON THE TIMES
GOOD ANSWERS? HELP NEEDED WITH #1.
1. Why would these images cause European monarchs to react in horror? These images would cause European monarchs to react in horror because...???
2. How might peasants in neighboring European countries react? Peasants in neighboring European countries might do the same thing, encouraged to revolt.

[CrOtALiTo]

Your homework is very weird, I don't know the answer above your homework.

[Jessica]

you mean about my homework.
I know you don't understand, but you have to try to picture the images in your head, and then see if my answer to #2 is ok. I am stuck on #1.
Do you know about the French Revolution?

[CrOtALiTo]

Not, I don't know nothing above it. I'm sorry.

[Jessica]

you know nothing about it
are you confused with about and above?

[CrOtALiTo]

Not, I know the meaning of the two words.

[Tomisimo]

Unas pequeñas correcciones

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

Not, I don't know nothing above it. I'm sorry.

No, I don't know anything about it. I'm sorry.

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

Not, I know the meaning of the two words.

No, I know the meaning of the two words.

[CrOtALiTo]

Thank you, I'm grateful with you, because I know the hard for you and correcting me.

[sosia]

1. Why would these images cause European monarchs to react in horror?

Suppose you're Marie-Antoinette at Versailles, and you see 6000 angry women coming at you. If you do nothing, they will attack the castle looking for something to eat. If you shoot at them, you can have a social revolt.......
At the end you have a revolt.

Then think you're the spanish/english/austrian king, and you heard what has happened in France. And you think ¿If my folk does revolt?

2. How might peasants in neighboring European countries react? Peasants in neighboring European countries might do the same thing, encouraged to revolt.
The answer it's OK, but you should add that it depens of the current king. Beloved kings/very armed kings usually ahve less revolts.

greetings

[poli]

Sí, me parece que la monarquía francesa no conocía a su gente. Si es verdad que María Antonietta dijo que se coman budin, fue porque no entendía lo que es el hambre. No era por chiste sino por falta de entender que su gente no tenían suficiente comida. Vivían en un mundo muy apartado y por eso la gente odiaba la monarquía del último Luis (not you crotalito)

[Rusty]

It probably wasn't Marie Antoinette who said, "Let them eat cake/pastry." This is a translation of the French "qu'ils mangent de la brioche," which apparently appeared in writing prior to her reign.
In Spanish, the phrase is rendered, "Que coman pastel" or "Que coman torta." Each is also said in the plural.

[poli]

pastel, torta, bizcocho, pudín (not budin as I used in a previous post) are all words for cake. I think it's one of those words that change from country to country. Pastel in Puerto Rico is a tamal made with root vegetables instead of corn and wrapped in a big green bijao or banana leaf.

[Jessica]

we're kinda getting out of the subject here. Now please check my question answers

[Rusty]

I found the phrase with the first three words you listed (pasteles is most common), but not pudin/pudín or budín (both are valid words, but they weren't associated with the phrase on the Internet).
In Central America, where I learned Spanish, a cake is una torta and a pie is un pastel. These words are not interchangeable there. But I see that a cake is called un pastel in some of the dictionaries I consult.

Check out the DRAE definitions for all these words. I wish they had pictures.

[Jessica]

okay maybe we should stop talking about cakes??

[poli]

Sorry Jessica, but one last thing about cakes in Spanish. I think that cakes as we know them (high torts with frosting) are uncommon in
Spain. Maybe that's the reason the word for cake is very regional in other Spanish-speaking countries.

[Jessica]

has anyone tasted ice cream cake before? they're better than cakes with frosting. frosting is too sweet.

[CrOtALiTo]

I never tasted the ice cream cake, I'd like taste that.

[Jessica]

there are ice cream cake stores (Dairy Queen or Brusters) in the USA. It's really good.