| January |
Mme de Guise is in retreat with other charitable women beyond the Porte
Saint-Martin. She will not join court for its trip to Lille, and Mme de Toscane
will be passing a very calm Carnival season at Montmartre. |
| February 15 |
Mme de Guise is again in retreat. |
| February |
Charpentier's Acis et Galatée
is played at Armand-Jean de Riants' home. |
| February 26 |
Mlle de Guise gives a luncheon party. |
| March 31? |
Louis XIV leads his troops to frontier and wins
several battles. Te Deum are therefore sung in March and
again in June |
| March 7 (18?) |
Mme de Guise goes to court to visit the Dauphin. |
| March 11-25 |
Mme de Guise is in Paris and attends luncheon parties at Hôtel
de Guise. |
| March |
Abbé Mathieu becomes curé of Saint-André-des-Arts,
the parish of Jean Edouard, dancing master, and his wife, Elisabeth Charpentier. |
| March 31 |
After a Te Deum at Notre-Dame,
the three Orléans sisters host a party at the Luxembourg. |
| April 11 |
Tenebrae services at Montmartre. |
| April |
Mme de Guise is working closely with Denis Talon (the brother of Marie
Talon-Voisin, the Charpentiers' friend) for charitable works of Saint-Sulpice
parish. |
| April |
The Tuesday or Wednesday lunches at the Hôtel de Guise contine
each week, and Mme de Guise is also having numerous parties at the Luxembourg
Palace. |
| May |
Mme de Guise is present at the sacre of Le Tellier, former curé
of Saint-Severin, who had just been named bishop of Digne. |
| May |
Preparations for the signature of a peace treaty at Nimwegen in September. |
| May 15 |
Mme de Guise leaves for a summer at Alençon . |
| May |
Abbess of Lys is consecrated at
Port-Royal of Paris by Harlay. |
| June 3 |
Someone (it must be Mme de Toscane) goes with Mlle de Guise to the Capucines
(the church where Mlle de Guise will be buried in 1688, near her late mother). |
| June 16-18 |
"La Gaignière" is being questioned in Poison Affair. |
| July 23 |
Benediction of Denis and Marie Talon's sister-in-law as abbess of
Saint-Menehould in Lorraine, at the Jesuit church of St-Louis. |
| Summer |
Paolo Lorenzani, the Italian composer, reaches Paris. |
| September 1 |
A reform of the confraternity of
Notre-Dame-de-Liesse at Saint- Sulpice. |
| September 18 |
Publication of the peace treaty at the Hague. |
| October |
Fete at Monsieur's house at Saint-Cloud, with Louis XIV as honored guest,
to inaugurate the new part of chateau. Violent rains during the 5-day
festivities. |
| November 9 |
Death of Nicolas Sevin, bishop of Cahors, during a visit to Paris. (He
is the brother of Sevin, the Séguier protégé
who married one of Charpentier's cousins.) |
| December 15 |
Signature of a peace treaty with Spain, followed by great festivities
in Paris. |
| December 17 |
Feast of the "Catherinettes" (old maids) organized by Mme de Guise
and Grande Mademoiselle at the Luxembourg with "music" |
