He had wine, but he needed bread to go with it. But a gentleman could not be seen buying his own bread. Then he considers buying some pastries instead. Just one witty aside in a long autobiography of…some guy. Marie Antoinette was only 11 years old in when he wrote the section of his autobiography. It may have already been a folk idiom at the time he wrote it.
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