Maxime Secretant was known to have worked at 74, rue Amelot in Paris towards the end of the 19th Century. He worked in association with his brother-in-law Léon Duval who worked for the well known ébéniste Gervais Durand and was known as a maker of fine furniture. (See D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Français du XIXc Siècle, 1984, p.575).