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Madame de Maintenon Armoirie de Madame de Maintenon  MADAME DE MAINTENON  Coat of Arms Maintenon Château de Maintenon
Armoirie de l'école de St. Cyr SAINT CYR STITCH Armoirie de l'école de Saint Cyr
PETIT Armoirie de Tapisserrie de France POINT
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Madam the Marquise de Maintenon & the Petit point from St. Cyr school on hand painted canvas

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A History Embroidered in Tapestry.

The Petit Point of tapestry needle-worked is closely related to a character of the French history as to particular patrimonial places. Maintenon stamp
It is indeed Madam de Maintenon, wife of Louis the Great, who has linked her name with this decorative art.
This stitch of tapestry was taught to the noble girls of her time. For their education Madam de Maintenon Maintenon stamp asked Louis XIV to put up the money for a school. After standing few years to Choisy le Roi, the school at last got settled, in Saint Cyr, a small village close to Versailles.
Louis XIVth also offered to Mrs Scaron (name whom she held from its first marriage with this famous writer) a castle at Maintenon in the Eure valley (about twenty miles from Versailles). The King to this occasion conferred her the marchioness title of nobility. Since then she will bear the title of Marchioness of Maintenon.
These are thus the bonds that form the Petit Point between these characters and the places which they lived that, with the words, we propose to embroider for you a tapestry.

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