let them eat cake

Size -27 cms tall by 31 cms wide 
Style of frame -  exquisite deep old gilt wooden French frame
Fabric / Background - an engraving of cakes taken from Mrs Beeton's "All About Cooking" 1909 
Wording - "Let them eat cake" is a famous quote, traditionally translated from the French "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche," attributed to Marie Antoinette when told peasants lacked bread, symbolizing aristocratic indifference, but historians widely agree she never said it, with the phrase appearing in writing by Jean-Jacques Rousseau decades earlier, likely as a journalistic cliché to highlight elite obliviousness.