The following curriculum vitae for Hervé Lelong in French appears at the website, http://www.herve-lelong.com/ from which the English translation thereof was taken: "Hervé Lelong, Painter Cartonnier Whose Creations Are Distributed By Veronique De Luna Hervé Lelong was born in Chartres September 10, 1937.

1956-1960 Art studies the workshop Met Penninghen. Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d'Art in Paris, Decoration General section. Student Yves Brayer, Aujame, Michel Rodde and Wogensky. Parallel studies of achievement in Aubusson tapestries and his first decorative panels (30m2) to the aircraft carrier Clemenceau.

1960-1962 Military service in Algeria.

1963 Control tapestry "Jeanne d'Arc" for the training ship of the Navy.

1963-1973 Creates and runs an agency interior design in addition to its activities as a painter-cartonnier.

1972-1976 Many trips to South America, including a six-month stay in Colombia, where he discovers the point Sumak and adapts to the tapestry workshop in Bogota. Hundred and twenty-woven tapestries will be developed according to its Sumak cartons.

1970-1996 Research on needlepoint old. Creating cartoons for this technique. Gallery opening Aubusson in 1982. Lelong Véronique de Luna creates the School of Needlepoint in 1985. Hervé Lelong is chosen by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris for republishing works Textile Museum. Also present at the Louvre Museum and the National Museum of the Middle Ages. On the occasion of the 8th centenary of the reconstruction of the Cathedral of Chartres Lelong Hervé offers cartons of four carpet, at parties carillonnées surround the altar of money created by the sculptor goldsmith Goudji. Their 75 m 2 took more than six years of work between 1993, when the idea was born, and 2000 when, on June 4, they were introduced for the first time after being exhibited at the Museum departmental Jean Lurçat Aubusson. Two hundred volunteers from all over France and several European countries stitch embroidery Chartres led by Véronique de Luna Lelong. Hervé Lelong created Aubusson tapestries smooth low in particular for: - Prefecture of Quimper, - The Hospital Federation of France, - Insurance companies GAMF / The People Group - GAN, - The newspaper "The Echo Republican" - Carthage Palace for President Bourguiba - The palace of the Shah of Iran - The palace in Abidjan to President Houphouet-Boigny - The company Yves Rocher - Companies May and Tupperware United States, - British Petroleum in Antwerp. - Grand Prize county of Crafts was awarded in 1987 by the Eure-et-Loir.