| January 11 |
The troop
performs the Malade imaginaire at court. |
| February 1 |
Mlle de Guise makes a donation entre
vifs to ensure that the duchy of Guise will be transferred to a
Lorraine. |
| February |
The king begins to feel pain
from a fistula. |
| February |
Divertissements
by composers other than Lully are being performed at Court, some of them for
the Dauphin (Descente
d'Orphée?) |
| Spring |
Charpentier ceases singing
with the Guise Music; the Quebec manuscript says he was, at that time, "maître
de musique" at the Jesuit college -- but that could well mean that he had
agreed to write some operas for the boys. |
| April 30 |
Baville decides to send 12 Barré girls to
work with the New Converts in the South. |
| May |
Death of Father Barré, of the
Infant Jesus, who is succeeded by the less
aescetic Ennemond Servien-Montigny. |
| May-June |
Public prayers for the king,
and festivities about his very brief recovery. |
| June 2, Pentecost |
The Duke of Chartres is admitted to the
Order of the Holy Spirit, with the Dauphin as his protector. |
| June 13 |
Louis XIV is well
enough to march in the Corpus Christi procession, with the Dauphin at his
side. |
| June 20 |
The "Little Fete Dieu" at
Versailles. |
| August 30 |
Birth of the Duke of Berry: a Te Deum. |
| November 18 |
Louis XIV is operated on for a fistula. |
| December 20 |
Te Deum's are sung in every church
in Paris, and people begin to celebrate the king's recovery. |
