| January (?) |
Negotiations begin for a peace with Holland |
| January 31 |
Mme de Guise has a gala lunch "with music" |
| January-July |
Mme de Guise is often at court. She tries to sell the Luxembourg to
Condé. She will be a court for Carnival. |
| February 10 |
Monsieur and Madame go to Montmartre,
where they are entertained by "music" prepared by Mme de Toscane |
| March 3 |
Mme de Guise, Mme de Toscane and the queen visit the Carmelites of rue
du Bouloir |
| March 16 |
Bout de l'An for Alençon (if there was one) |
| April 3 |
Monsieur and Madame attend sung tenebrae
services at
Montmartre.
Mme de Montmartre has invited the king to attend. Many people attend. |
| April 13 |
A fête at the Hôtel de Guise |
| April 17 |
Brinvilliers is arrested |
| May |
Mme Goibault du Bois dies |
| May 16 |
A Lorraine d'Elbeuf takes the veil at the nuns of Sainte-Marie on the
rue St.-Jacques, in presence of Mme de Guise, Mme de Toscane, and "all the
princesses of the house of Lorraine." |
| May 22 to Pentecost |
Mme de Guise is at St-Cloud, then to St-Germain -en-Laye for Pentecost |
| June 8 |
Mme de Guise is in Paris for a few days |
| July 12 |
Father Verthamon, S.J., (the uncle by marriage of Marie Talon-Voisin,
who signed Elisabeth Charpentier's wedding contract in the early 1660s) gives
a latin harangue in honor of Louis XIII and officiates at the pontifical
mass that is part of the consecration of the Jesuit church
of St. Louis |
| July 28 |
The young Harcourt girl who is being prepared as abbess of Montmartre
takes theveil in presence of the princesses of the house of Lorraine (which
include Mlle de Guise) |
| July-August |
Mme de Guise is at court |
| August-September |
Capitulation of Aire and Maestricht; attacks by the Dutch. Monsieiur
plays an active role in these battles. Te Deum sung at Notre-Dame
on August 5 |
| August 7 |
Mlle de Guise creates a hospital at Guise |
| August 7 |
First performance of La Triomphe des
Dames, with music by Charpentier |
|
Mme de Guise promises to contribue 300 livres per year to the
charitable activities of St-Sulpice |
| September 7 |
Mme de Guise is briefly at the Luxembourg |
| Fall |
Both Barré's institute to prepare the teachers of the
Infant Jesus, and the Hôtel de
l'Enfant Jésus open their doors
to pupils |
| October 5 |
Baptism at Saint-Cloud of Duke of Chartres and Mlle de Chartres, the
children of Monsieur and Madame
(Mme de Guise is her godmother), followed
by a collation and an "opera". The festivities included
"converzatione di musica", which could refer to Charpentier's little
dialogue. |
| October 15 |
Mme de Guise and the queen visit the Carmelites of rue du Bouloir for
feast of St. Theresa |
| October 23 |
Mme de Guise is in Paris |
| November |
Mme de Guise creates, at Alençon,
a house for Nouvelles Converties, that is, new women converts
to Catholicism, and she plays an active role in the conversion of
a Huguenot woman at Saint-Louis |
| December
24 |
The Orléans attend a "salut
en musique" at the Theatines |
