The family were first bourgeois of Paris before becoming part of the French nobility.

This Parisian branch of the Van Dievoet family became extinct in 1802 with the death of François Gilles Vandive.

[4] Depending on the source, the name of Philippe Van Dievoet was changed to Vandive either by the Dauphin[5] of whom he had been the jeweller, or by his father, King Louis XIV.

[6] Before that, it was briefly written as Vandivout, in an attempt to frenchize the name.

[7] Two of its members benefitted from personal and/or hereditary ennoblements due to their functions and offices.