One of the most renowned Parisian luxury houses, Maison Maquet became official purveyor to Empress Eugénie as well as to several royal courts, winning multiple awards and medals at various World's fairs over the course of its history.

Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III regularly visited the shop on Rue de la Paix, where she was served by Madame Maquet.

[7] Maquet was also favored by French aristocratic elites, and its clients included the Princess Pauline von Metternich, as well as the Rohan-Chabot and Costa de Beauregard families.

In fact, the French daily newspaper Le Figaro reported in 1875 that the "stationary was adorned with the Great Duke's coat of arms, embellished with gold and colors enamel; of unparalleled richness and elegance.

[12] In 1908, Maquet changed hands: it became the property of businessman and architect Léon Tissier,[13] who rejuvenated the company through multiple artistic collaborations.

[14] Tissier, the son of a travel items manufacturer, also extended Maquet's range of leather goods products.

[20] It then extended its expertise to manufacture luxury leather goods, metalwork, and watches, before branching out to engraving and art printing.

The French author Prosper Mérimée notably wrote the short novel La Chambre Bleue in 1866,[24] dedicated to Empress Eugénie, on a Maquet notebook bound with dark green Morocco leather, discreetly hand-tooled in gold leaf.

Maison Maquet proposed a wide range of leather goods, including handbags and travel bags, as well as vanity cases, wallets, cardholders and purses.

Inkpots, paper trays, as well as small leather goods, both sturdy and beautiful, were featured in the house's commercial catalogs.

The gift, intended to reinforce the Entente Cordiale between France and the United Kingdom, displayed French craftsmanship through a 360-piece trousseau in the tradition of Parisian haute couture.

Maquet's contributions consisted in leather goods and accessories: two writing cases, one in blue, the other in red, each with its notepaper monogrammed to the dolls’ initials, and a miniature gold pen.

[20] In the early 20th century, Maison Maquet diversified into engraving, and art printing, collaborating with drawing artists, lithographers, poster makers, and engravers[14] including Guy Arnoux, George Barbier, Albert Besnard, Umberto Brunelleschi, Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet, Henri Lebasque, Georges Lepape, Valdo-Barbey, and Adolphe Willette.

Maquet made artistic menus for the Paris Hôtel de Ville (lunch offered to Theodore Roosevelt on 25 April 1910;[33] menu for the opening of the Pavilion of the City of Paris at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts on 14 May 1925[34]), for the Élysée Palace (dinner offered to King Peter I of Serbia on 16 November 1911, illustrated by Octave Denis Victor Guillonet[35]), for French embassies (dinner offered for the reception in honor of King George V by French President Raymond Poincaré at the French Embassy in London, on 25 June 1913, illustrated by George Barbier[36]), for the opening of the French section at the Brussels World Fair in 1910, for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (menus for the France Liner), and for the Drouant restaurant in Paris (host of both the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Renaudot committee members’ monthly lunches since 1914 and 1926 respectively[37]).