You are almost right, France (the Provence) has a very old tradition of wholecloth quilts called Boutis. Many of these quilts are made in the 17th century. But the evidence of something like wholecloth quilts are much older! In the 20th of the last century a quilted carpet was found on the floor of a tomb in Siberia and it is probably made during the period of the first century B.C. and the second century A.D.
Probably the oldest examples of domestic quilting are three quilts made at the end of the 14th century with a Sicilian origin. One of the quilts is now in London in the possession of the Victory & Albert Museum, the second is in the Bargello Museum of Florence and the third in private ownership in Florence.