| January 19 |
Te Deum at Notre-Dame for safety of royal army |
| February |
Rehearsals begin for
Circé |
| February |
Mme de Guise is in Paris |
| March 15 |
First performance of Circé
with Charpentier's music |
| March
16 |
Death of little François-Joseph de Lorraine, duke of
Alençon, Mme de Guise's only son,
and Mlle de Guise's great-nephew, the last surviving
male of the House of Guise |
| March 19 |
Alençon's body is taken to Montmartre, to where Mme de Guise and
Mlle de Guise have withdrawn and where they will see no one. |
| April |
Mme de Guise and Mlle de Guise are still at Montmartre. Mlle de Guise
is threatening to make her own children's existence public, if Mme de Guise
insists on inheriting any Guise property from little Alençon. |
| April 10 |
Mlle de Guise pays Mme de Guise 60,000 livres and takes back
possession of the duchy of Guise. Henceforth she is the "duchess of Guise" |
| May 12 |
Mlle de Guise has parloirs and a pavillon built for her use at Montmartre,
where her sister is abbess. |
| May 13 |
Marc Mallier is consecrated as bishop of Tarbes at the Mercy. (Mallier
is the nephew of Mme de Bailleul, who signed Elisabeth Charpentier's wedding
contract in the early 1660s.) |
| May 15 |
Mme de Guise is negotiating with the
Theatines for a chapel |
| May 17 |
Mme de Guise has left mourning enough to go to St.-Germain-en-Laye but
has not yet had a public audience to receive condolences. |
| May 31 |
Mme de Guise and Mlle de Guise finally see the Florentine resident briefly
and to accept the condolences of the Medicis. |
| June 4 |
Mlle de la Vallière takes the veil at the Grand Carmel, in presence
of Mme de Guise. (La Vallière was raised at Blois with Mme de Guise's
sisters. Mme de Guise herself was raised in a convent in the Ile-de-France,
but she visited her family enough to know La Vallière quite well.) |
| June |
Father Barré, the Minim who directs the
Filles de l'Enfant
Jésus, is already at work in Paris, setting
up schools. |
| July 1 |
Te Deum for royal victories |
| July 4 |
The Mercy cedes a chapel to
Mlle de Guise. |
| July |
Mme de Guise goes to Auxerre to welcome her sister, Mme de Toscane
(wife of the Medici prince) and bring her back to Montmartre.
Mlle de Guise and Mme de Montmartre go to greet her at Fontainebleau . |
| July 28 |
Mme de Toscane has reached Montmartre, where the Medicis expect her to
live like a nun (she promptly proves them wrong !) |
| August 15 |
Mme de Guise is at Versailles. |
| September 19 |
The queen and Mme de Toscane go to Saint-Cloud, country house of
Monsieur, for "toutes les musiques possibles" |
| September 20 |
The directors of the Academy of the Enfant
Jésus buy a hôtel on the rue de Sèvres. |
| September 20 |
Louis XIV attends mass at Montmartre |
| September |
The Lorraines (including Mlle de Guise) go into black mourning for the
duke of Lorraine. |
| September 27? Saturday |
Gondi, the Florentine resident in Paris, has gone out of his way
to have a talk with the Theatines. |
| September 30 |
Mme de Guise has arrived at Versailles
(apparently from Paris, which places her in Paris on just those days when
some of the texts used in Judith
were supposed to be recited). |
| October |
Father Barré's institute, which soon will come to be known as
the "Enfant Jésus", is already
functioning in Mlle de Guise's parish,
St-Jean-en-Grève |
| October |
The deadline for completion of the décor of
Mme de Guise's chapel at
Theatines. |
| October |
Mme de Guise spends the fall at court (so if she needed her chapel
desperately, it was for an event that took place prior to October!) |
| October 26 |
Redemption of captives celebration at the Mercy |
| December
24 |
Mme de Guise goes into Paris for
Christmas, and Monsieur and Madame attend
sung vespers at the
Theatines |
