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 ​​​​​October 30, 1875     – Birth of Leo Abraham Abendana Belmonte in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the son of a Portuguese Jewish banker and has 7 brothers and sisters.

 

By 1895 – Goes to Paris to study at the Julian academy where he gets acquainted to Sándor Nagy, Aladár Körösfõi-Kriesch and Percyval Tudor-Hart.

 

By 1898 – Returns to Stockholm where he lives by painting portraits.

 

 By 1902 – Studies tapestry at the Manufacture des Gobelins of Paris. Meets Marguerite Bloch whom he marries in 1903.

 

 August 1904 , 29  – Birth in Paris of his son Daniel.

 

1905 – Buys a car and goes to Hungary with his family. Settles down to Gödöllő where he teaches weaving and executes tapestries restorations for the Emperor François Joseph..

 

June 1907 , 14 – Birth in Gödöllő of his daughter Yvette.

 

End of July, 1914 – The family returns to France because of the war and settles down to Boulogne. Léo loses sight of his friends Sándor, Aladár and Percyval.  

 

1920 – Körösfõi-Kriesch's death in Budapest.

 

1919 – Tapestries are no longer in demand at this time. Léo the artist becomes accountant to live his family.

 

1926 – Tudor-Hart, Nagy and Belmonte meet themselves by the fruit of fate. Tudor-Hart subjects to Léo the project of Adam and Eve's tapestry. After a first refusal, Belmonte eventually accepted. Work begins but Tudor-Hart is not very diligent in the sending of cartoons.

 

1939-1945 – Because of the war, Tudor-Hart and Belmonte loses contact and tapestry is unresolved. The family crosses a very difficult period during the war and being Jewish, they wear the yellow star.

 

Autumn, 1944 – Belmonte resumes contact with Tudor-Hart who begins sending him again cartoons for the tapestry but always in a very sporadic way.

 

1950 – Death of Nagy in Gödöllő.

 

1954 – Tudor-Hart's death. His wife Catherine sets raise it and continues to send the cartoons which she makes herself.

 

Autumn, 1956 – Léo Belmonte's death in Paris while he went to the studio to work on the tapestry Adam and Ève. René Baudonnet resumes tapestry.

 

1961 – Baudonnet ends the tapestry Adam and Ève, 35 years after the beginning.