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Notes for "1675: Madame de Toscane comes to Paris" 

1. Montpensier, Mémoires, IV, p. 371.

2. For this summary of the Alençon financial settlement and Mlle de Guise's options in the future, see Florence, Med. del Prin., 4672, April 12, 1675. The statement about her children was in code. For Mme de Guise's return of all Guise property, see A.N., M.C., LXXV, 175, vendition, April 10, 1675.

3. Titre 137 in little Alençon's inventory, before Bouret and Galoys, 10 Apr. 1675.

4. A.N., M.C., CXII, 398, autograph will deposited on March 12, 1688.

5. Florence, Med. del Prin., 4672, May 31, 1675 and 4676, bill of August 2, 1680.

6. Florence, Med. del Prin., 4672, Sept. 30, 1675.

7. Archives of Society of Jesus, Rome, Franc. 14, (1672); Franc. 15 (1675), no. 36. These triennial records do not show the specific month when the list of residents was drawn up for each Jesuit house, but other documents reveal that rectors generally changed at the end of the calendar year or, less often, in May. Thus Pierre de Verthamon probably was at the Collège de Clermont from the final weeks of 1671 to the final days of 1674.

8. Moreri, Grand Dictionnaire, "Commire, Jean."

9. A.N., M.C., LXXV, 175, sommation, April 15, 1675.

10. Accounts of this affair appear in Montpensier, Mémoires, IV, pp. 372-375 and 530-535. The date can be established thanks to the Gazette d'Amsterdam (B.N., G 4278) which, on February 21, 1676, states: "on dit que M. le Prince traite du Grand Luxembourg avec Mlle de Montpensier et Mme de Guise...."

11. Med. del Prin., 4818, March 18, 1675. Jean-François de Voisins d'Alzau was the son of Jacques (Gaston d'Orléans's maréchal des logis), and was the "chevalier d'honneur" of Mme de Guise. He apparently had ties to the town of Voisins near Carcassonne; and in 1674 he married Paule d'Alibert (who may have been a relative of Jacques II Dalibert, since the latter's mother came from Toulouse, where Paule d'Alibert likewise had family ties). B.N., ms. Carrés d'Hozier, 642, "Voisins," fol. 351, 353.

12. Florence, Med. del Prin., 4767, May 17 and Oct. 25, 1675 and a bill dated July 1675; 4768, Dec. 11 and 25, 1676.

13. Le Mercure Hollandois, contenant les choses les plus remarquables de toute la Terre, arrivées en l'an 1675, jusqu'à l'an 1676, (Amsterdam: H. and T. Boom, 1678), p. 403 (information provided by Jérôme de La Gorce).

14. Montpensier, Mémoires, IV, p. 377.

15. Sévigné, Lettres, I, pp. 739 et 773.

16. Med. del Prin., 4767, file 2, May 17, 1675.

17. From an Epitre au bénédictines du Calvaire quoted by Dom Y. Chaussy, J. Dupaquier et  al., L'Abbaye Royale Notre-Dame de Jouarre (Paris, 1961), I, p. 196, n. 29.

18. A.N., M.C., XCIX-267, Indemnity and Donation, March 6, 1676, by which Mlle de Guise offers the pavillon to the abbey.

19. Med. del Prin., 6265, June 1676, autograph letter.

20. Med. del Prin., 6265, February 26, 1678.

21. Med. del Prin., 6265, March 18, 1678.

22. For this crucial letter, which proves that Mlle de Guise had a band of skilled musicians in her pay as early as 1675, see Florence, Med. del Prin., 4767, August 23 1675.

23. Florence, Med. del Prin., 4767, Nov. 8, 1675.

24. Florence, Med. del Prin. 4767, file 4, Feb. 13, 1674.

25. Med. del Prin., 4768, November 27, 1676.

26. Med. del Prin., 4768, February 24, 1676 and June 12, 1676.

27. See for example, Med. del Prin., 4768, January 31, 1676 (a lottery and a "diveritisimento della musica" at the hôtel de Guise; February 8, 1677 (lunch and dancing at the Hôtel de Guise); February 19, 1677 (a magnificent lunch for Monsieur and Madame and the different Lorraines at the Hôtel de Guise); Med. del Prin., 6265, February 26, 1678 (a mardi gras party at the Hôtel de Guise), and so forth.

28. Florence, Med. del Prin., 4767, Oct. 28, 1675.

29. Montpensier, Mémoires, IV, p. 378.

30. On La Vallière and the Orléans, see J.B. Eriau, Louise de la Vallière, de la Cour au Carmel (Paris, 1931), especially pp. 1-12 and 157-170.

31. A.N., M.C., XCIX, 225, constitution, February 26, 1666.

32. B.N., ms. fr. 100754, fol. 275, an allusion, in a letter written by Dr. Valant in July 1683, to the orange trees, "que les grandes carmélites y ont envoyés."

33. J.-B. Eriau, L'Ancien Carmel du Faubourg Saint-Jacques (Paris, 1929), p. 321. (I have not gone to Clamart to check the accuracy of the source that Eriau cites: indeed, since Mme de Guise was the one buried at the Grand Carmel, I wonder if he is correct about  it being Mlle de Guise who made this request. It wouldn't be the first time someone confused the two!) If they claimed to be "cousins," it was doubtlessly because of two De Voisins women. Judith Gigault de Bellefonds, who was known as Mère Agnès de Jésus-Maria was the granddaughter of Charlotte de Voisins. The paternal great-grandfather of Henriette-Catherine de Joyeuse, Mlle de Guise's mother, was Françoise de Voisins. Moreri, Grand Dictionnaire, "Gigault," "Joyeuse."

34. It is not altogether certain that this work belongs at the beginning of cahier 9. It is written on a paper that appears nowhere else in the twenty-eight volumes and is preceded and followed by blank pages.The other two sheets of cahier 9 — an unusually thin notebook — are yet another type of paper (and the remainder of Judith was transcribed onto still a different brand). The Mémoire of 1726 does not refer to this motet in honor of St. Anne. Indeed, the cahier should begin with "Languentibus à 3 voix" and should end with "Motet pour St Augustin," B.N., Rés, Vmb ms. 71, fol. 13. In other words, the outer sheets of the cahier clearly disappeared between the compilation of the Mémoire in 1726 and the binding of the manuscripts years later. This does not, however, prove conclusively that the motet for St. Anne was inserted into this notebook by the binders, because the Mémoire fails to mention a number of short works that at the time clearly were already an integral part of the notebook in which they are to be found today.

35. Catherine Cessac, Marc-Antoine Charpentier (Paris, 1988), p. 306.

36. A.N., LL 1587, fol. 57.

37. Père Le Moyne, S.J., La Gallerie des Femmes fortes (Paris: A. Courbé, 1661), p. 60.

38. Le Moyne, Gallerie des Femmes fortes, p. 66.

39. Cessac, Charpentier, p. 306.

40. Breviaire Romain (Paris: G. Josse, 1682), automne, pp. 172-177. On pages 175-76 one finds: "Si cette Semaine icy est la dernière de septembre, aujourd'huy [jeudi] à Matines on commence le livre d'Esther, avec les Respons comme plus bas au V Dimanche de ce mois." If there were five Sundays, additional excerpts from chapters 12 and 13 of Judith were to be read. That Charpentier's Judith includes passages from chapters 12 and 13 supports my dating of this work: in 1675 there were indeed five Sundays in September (September 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29).

41. Med. del Prin., 4672, September 30, 1675.

42. La Bruyère, Les Caractères, "De quelques usages," ¶ 19.

43. Raymond Darricau, Les Clercs réguliers théatins à Paris. Saint-Anne-la-Royale (1644-1793) (Rome, 1961), pp. 40-41.

44. Bérulle et Amelote, quoted by Yvan Leskoutoff, La Sainte et la Fée, Dévotion à l'Enfant Jésus et mode des contes merveilleux à la fin du règne de Louis XIV (Genève, 1987), pp. 42 and 52; and, on the Nativity, pp. 21-26.

45. A.N., M.C., LXXV, 176, obligation, July 8, 1675.

46. A.N., M.C., XCIX, 266, fondation, December 29, 1675.

47. A.N., M.C., XCIX, 268, délaissement, April 29, 1676.

48. A.N., LL 1557, p. 13.

49. See the descriptions of the church in 1630 and in 1657, A.N., LL 1559, fols. 1-3.

50. Dr. Branjon, Duke Henry's physician, offered the church a painting of the Virgin, but its location is not mentioned, A.N., LL 1559, fol. 3v.

51. Loret, Muze, III, p. 249, September 4, 1660.

52. Loret called Bernard a "commis," who "de ses biens a fait tant de part par une ferveur catholique pour achever cette fabrique, qu'elle ne seroit pas sans luy, en l'êtat qu'elle est aujourd'huy," Loret, Muze, II, April 1657. See also A.N., LL 1556, p. 23.

53. Brice, Description, ed. of 1752, III, pp. 450-51.