Croissants are a style of viennoiserie pastries, which of course relates back to the Austrian city of Vienna, otherwise known as the birthplace of croissants. The ancestor to the modern-day croissant was called the kipferl, which dates back to the 13th century and comes in various shapes and sizes. Marie Antoinette is the one who popularized the croissant in France by requesting the royal bakers to replicate her favorite treat from her homeland, Austria. Then, August Zang, an Austrian artillery officer that founded a Viennese Bakery in Paris in around 1839. Do you love this story as much as we do?