She never said it. The line turns up in Rousseau in 1765, handed to an unnamed princess, back when Marie Antoinette was nine and still in Austria. She would not reach Versailles for another five years, and nobody pinned the words on her until more than fifty years after the Revolution. The original was brioche, which is not even cake. Wrong speaker, wrong pastry, repeated for two centuries. Here she wears it instead of offering it, powdered and stacked and entirely past caring. For people who check the quote before they repeat it.

A Marie Antoinette graphic tee for history readers, French Revolution obsessives, and anyone who has corrected a famous misquote at the wrong moment. A rococo bust crowned with a tiered cake, the line she never actually said. A gift for history buffs, museum people, pastry fans, and the fact-checkers of the internet.