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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! La Maison Goyard is a French luggage manufacturer established in 1853 by Franois Goyard, located on the rue Saint-Honor in Paris.Franois Goyard was born on September 8, 1828, in Clamecy, Burgundy. For the previous two centuries his family had been part of the Compagnon de Rivire, a guild of transporters of wood, by river, from the forests of Morvan up to Paris where it was used to heat homes in the city. The Goyards would float wood in rafts seventy five metres long and five metres wide, taking eleven days to navigate 220 kilometer distance up the Yonne and the Seine Rivers to their destination. The return journey would be made on foot. In 1832, Franois' father Edme Goyard decided to move his family to Paris. In 1845, the 17 year-old Franois became apprenticed to the workshop of Henri Morel who, in 1836 had acquired Maison Martin, a packing-case and trunkmaker to the Duchesse of Berry, which was located 4 rue Neuve des Capucines.