The
history of point shoes gets confused with the history of the technique of the points, the two complement therefore evolved
together, each wrote the other. Everything begins when the Italian princess Catarina of Médici married with French Henrique II and they introduced the ballet de cour, or the ''ballet of the court'' to the French Court in the century XVI. Of those first
productions with masked and wearing a costume noblemen, the dance of the cut develops for extravagant shows, where a vocabulary of steps now being created - today the same steps in the same basic positions that you do every day in the classroom. About 1600 king Luís XIV loved to dance and to star the productions of the court. He was called of ''King Sun'' because the paper that interpreted in one of the ballets staged by his company. When he became too old and fat: hihihi: to dance he continued to be one of the biggest patrons of the ballet. He founded Académie Royale of Danse, that later if it turned Paris Ópera Ballet. He used the ballet in a political way, doing with that the courtiers bent and they reverenced in an elegant way for him, to celebrate him and to glorify him, and like this to reinforce the power of the throne.