the oldest source of this phrase to be found is in the confessions of jean-jaques rousseau, and he also did not mention her name, only referring to her as a 'great princess'. it is incorrectly attributed to someone else, and is said to exhibit the callousness of monarchy which aggravated the anger of the masses and led to the french revolution.
keeping in mind the law however, at that time, it was not callous.at the time of the origin of the phrase , the law was that, if all the cheap ones were gone then a fancier one had to be sold at the price of the cheap one, thus preventing any trickery by the seller.give me the english translation of the phrase and the person to whom it is incorrectly attributed.
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