Let them eat cake!

Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France and wife of Louis XVI, never actually pronounced the words she is most famous for (isn't it ironic - don't you think?).

Do you know what else she never did? 

Lend her left breast to glass makers to model the famous Marie Antoinette champagne coupe after.

Let me explain.

Due to my extreme nostalgia and love of most everything vintage, I started collecting champagne coupes about one year ago.

The main difference between a champagne coupe and a champagne flute is size. A coupe is a small, saucer-shaped drinking vessel (!) while a flute is a long, thin, delicate 'lil thing.

Behold...

coupes

flutes

Let's hope flutes weren't modelled after anyone's breasts!!!

Legend has it that M.A. lent her left breast (the bigger one or the smaller one? things that make you go hmmm) to glass makers to mold champagne coupes after that would be used by her courtesans to toast to her health but, in reality, coupes were actually invented in 1663 way before Marie Antoinette was drinking champagne.

The reason they made them so small and wide is because champagne wasn't as bubbly then as it is now. Despite this fact, I much prefer drinking my fizzy out of coupes because I love the way they feel in my hand... and I like pretending I'm partying chez Jay Gatsby's when I indulge in bubbly.   

Speaking of Marie Antoinette... I absolutely loved Sofia Coppola's film with the same name and have wonderful memories of watching it with the beau chez nous many moons ago.

But I was surprised by this scene... can you guess why?

 

Hint: Think Chucks.