The House of Fabergé is a jewellery firm founded towards the end of the first half of the 19th century in Imperial Russia famed for designing elaborate jewell encrusted Fabergé Eggs for the Russian Tsarshttp://uk.reuters.com/article/UK_SMALLCAPSRPT/idUKL1019316320071010?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0. Since January 2007 the Fabergé brand has been under the ownership of Fabergé Ltdhttp://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aUCUQlQRhqHY. Early years The Fabergé family can be traced back to 17th century France, then under the name Favri. The Favris lived at the village of La Bouteille in the Picardy region of northern France. However, they fled the country during or shortly after 1685 because of religious persecution. An estimated fellow 250,000 Huguenots, as the movement of French Protestants was known, also became fugitives.