Jean Magoulet provided gold, silver and silk embroideries for garments and furnishings. But what added a twist to this all-too-familiar tale of trafficking was that it was her father, Jean Magoulet, who was asking for his daughter’s deportation, on grounds of prostitution. But the story begins with the elder Jean Magoulet, who gloried under the title of the ‘Queen’s Embroiderer’ in the late seventeenth century. Despite Magoulet’s son (also Jean) succeeding his father as royal embroiderer, they ‘seemed constitutionally incapable of living within their means’. It is in the fateful year 1719 that Louis Chevrot and Louise Magoulet were trying to canvass the support of their respective families to get married.

Source: The Telegraph May 02, 2019 15:33 UTC