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Footnotes for "My Reading of the Evidence for 1670"

1. Gazette, April 1670, p. 336.

2.  Office de la quinzaine de Pasques selon l'usage de Rome et de Paris (Paris, 1727), p. 246.

3.  Loret, Muze, III, p. 267.

4.  See H. 240, O sacrum pour 3 religieuses; H. 173, Miserere (where the allusion to a haute-contre was added circa 1690); and H. 288, 109, 110, 111, 114, 116, 117, 118 and 322, composed for the nuns at the Abbaye-aux-Bois.

5.   Loret, Muze, II, p. 182.

6.  Archivio di Stato, Florence, Med. del Prin., 4891, newsletter dated April 11, 1656.

7.  Montpensier, Mémoires, I, p. 29.

8.  B.N., ms. fr. 22431, fols. 109 ff.

9.  Dufourcq (Pardon me for not looking up exactly which work on organs ! ), p. 156.

10.  Blémur, L'année bénédictine, III, p. 17.

11.  Med. del Prin., 4767, file 4: February 13, 1674: Mme de Toscane was coming with an Italian girl who "possesses music," which means that the abbess will not have to assign to the Grand Duchess one of her nuns, "who in the number of two or three possess music marvelously well."

12. Mercure galant, October 1678, p. 32.

13. Les Ténèbres de la Semaine Sainte pour le religieuses de Montmartre (Paris: Sevestre, 1647), a publication given as a gift to the abbey by Anne-Marie de Lorraine.

14. Cérémonial des religieuses de l'ordre de S. Benoist (Paris: Chevalier, 1626), published for the Benedictines of Monstervilliers in Normandy, pp. 124 ff.

15. See Maurice Dumolin, "Notes sur l'abbaye de Montmartre," Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Ile-de-France 58(1931), pp. 203-213.

16. Robinet, Lettres en vers, August 30, 1670.

17. Gazette, August 1670, p. 844.

18. (Vatican... from J. de la Gorce... find citation..... which I hope to come upon one day in my drawers and drawers of files!)

19. It surely is a coincidence that the Duke of Alençon was born that day.

20. "Quae est ista qui ascendit de deserto deliciis affluens" is part of the office for September 15 (that is, for the final day of the octave of the Nativity of the Virgin), and "tota pulchra est amica mea [...] veni, veni de Libano, veni sponsa mea, veni coronaberis" is part of the matins for August 18, Brevarium romanum (Paris: G. Josse, 1682), pp. 729 and 672.

21. Chambray et Duval, "Documents historiques relatifs au couvent de Sainte Claire d'Alençon," Bulletin de la Société historique de l'Orne 2(1883), p. 132.

22. La Liste véritable et générale de tous les Prédicateurs, B.N., Rés. 4o Lk7 6743, for Advent of 1671. Saint-Louis apparently did not make the publisher's deadline in 1670, but this omission surely does not mean that the Jesuits did not hold their "customary" services on Sunday and Thursday.

23. Montpensier, Mémoires, IV, p. 250.

24. Gazette, January 1671, p. 23.

25. Montpensier, Mémoires, IV, p. 219.

26. Darrican, Les Théatins à Paris, pp. 40-41.