Paris is spoilt for choice when it comes to cakes and pastry shops

Here are 10 of our favourite places to buy cake in the French capital, Paris.

LIKE many an enduring myth, there isn’t a single crumb of truth in the story that French queen Marie Antoinette told the peasants to eat cake — or brioche, as the purists insist — when they said they didn’t have bread.

In fact, the much-maligned monarch was far more likely to have given the starving masses food had she been allowed, such was her generous nature, says her biographer Antonia Fraser.