In circa 1494, during the reign of French King Charles VIII and his wife, Anne of Brittany, it was probably created in Jean Bourdichon's atelier in the Chateau de Plessis-lez-Tours, about 28 kilometers along the Loire River from Chateau D'Amboise. In that same year, this book of hours probably traveled to Italy with the French Army. There, it was lost in the Apennine Mountains, where -- in the same place as a gold chalice that still resided in the local Parrish Church – it was probably found.

For about 450 years, this book of hours resided somewhere in the Apennines until in 1945, when food was scarce it was sold to a shop near where the US 10th Army Mountain Division was preparing to attack mountain-based Nazi strongholds. A soldier bought it from that shop, but in a card game soon lost it to fellow soldier, Pete Lafitte.

Sido knew nothing of Pete Lafitte's ancestry, but Lafitte was a known name in the French colonies, and/or in Louisiana there was a legend that Jean Lafitte, pirate and hero of the Battle of New Orleans, spawned at least ten bastards. The music box had returned to her gallery. Sido wound it up. Once again it began to replay a French children’s song.

Pete Lafitte sent the Book of Hours to his sweetheart, Merry Joliat. When he returned home from the War, Pete and Merry were married. They took the book of hours to their new home near Jay Peak on the Vermont Canadian border, where it remained until Merry sent it to their daughter Anne-Merry Lafitte St Denis on the occasion of the birth of Anne-Merry and her husband Nicolas St. Denis' first child.

Sido wound up the music box again, while she contemplated why Nico and Anne-Merry bought the music box in a thrift store, painted the recent history of the book of hours on the music box, concealed the book of hours inside it, and then set it adrift at an Art Institute fundraiser, where Sido purchased it in February of the current year.