The Ranums' Panat Times

Footnotes for my "Reading of the Evidence, 1671"

1. Gazette, February 1671, p. 131.

2. B.N., ms. D.B. 349, "Harlay," fol. 99.

3. B.N., ms. D.B. 349, "Harlay," fol. 99.

4. Montpensier, Mémoires, III, p. 384.

5. Another source says it was "Madame" de Guise, Gazette, 1671, p. 153. But the meal was eaten on the ground floor, where Mlle de Guise's apartment was located; and then everyone went up the grand new staircase to the "noble floor" where the grand apartment and the Duke's apartment were situated.

6. Sévigné, Lettres, February 9, 1671.

7. Archivio di Stato, Florence, Med. del Prin., 4815, May 15, 1671.

8. Mayolas, Lettres en vers, "10th day of Lent, 1671."

9. Med. del Prin., 4815, November 21 and 22, 1670, and June 12, 1671.

10. Montpensier, Mémoires, IV, p. 253.

11. Med. del Prin., 6161, March 20, 1671.

12. Sévigné, Lettres, March 20 and April 29, 1671.

13. Gazette, June 1671, p. 604.

14. According to the Mémoire of 1726 (probably compiled with the help of Jacques Edouard, who was but a child in the 1670s and 1680s, the elevation was for the "salut du Saint Sacrement," which usually took place on Thursday. By contrast, the liturgy of the period (and especially the handbooks used by confraternities of penitents) suggests that this text was used for Corpus Christi -- which fell on May 28 in 1671.

15. Bernard Picart, Cérémonie et Coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (Amsterdam, 1739), II, p. 145. This antiphon ws also part of the common of the virgins.

16. The words are made up of borrowings from two offices in honor of Saint Francis, the one recited on his feast day, October 6, and the one commemorating the impression of the stigmata, recited on September 17. The words "gloriam nisi in cruce Domini per quem illi mundus et ille mundo crucifixus est" appear only in the office for September 17, Missale graduale romanum (Paris: F. Coustellier, 1669), pp. 883 and 333. The first work honored Mlle de Guise's holy patronness and the second must have been was intended for the chapel of Mme de Guise's mother.

17. Montpensier, Mémoires, IV, p. 278.

18. Gazette, article dated June 18, 1671, pp. 631-633.

19. Montpensier, Mémoires, IV, p. 302.

20. Med. del Prin., 4669, July 24, 1671.

21. M. Mareschaulx, "Oraison funèbre [...] d'Elisabeth d'Orléans," B.N., ms. Clairambault, 1100, fols. 157 ff (pp. 13-14).

22. Gui Patin, Lettres, ed. J. H. Reveillé-Parisè (Paris, 1846), III, pp. 781-783. Patin says that Beaurains was eighty years old at the time.

23. Sévigné, Lettres, August 5, 1671.

24. The description of the funeral of July 31 is found in the Gazette, August 1671, p. 737.

25. Montpensier, Mémoires, IV, p. 302.

26. Montpensier, Mémoires, IV, pp. 219-20.

27. Gazette, .....

28. Vatican Library (B.V.), Barb. lat. 3525, fols. 602v et 604.

29. BV, Barb. lat. 8019, Paris, August 7, 1671 (letter provided by Jérôme de la Gorce).

30. Med. del Prin., 6161, August 7, 1671.

31. Recueil de Lettres en vers et en prose dédiées au Roy par le Sr Lagrevéte, B.N., Rés. Lc² 29, automne 1671 (provided by Jérôme de la Gorce).

32. Loret, Muze, II, p. 171, about the funeral of Henriette-Catherine de Joyeuse, dowager duchess of Guise in March 1656.

33. For examples of events where Louis XIV loaned his musicians to a "prince", see Benoit, Versailles, pp. 332, 334, 78, 79.

34. She paid Perrin's debts in 1672, A.N., M.C., XXIX-216, élargissement, August 27, 1672.

35. Gazette, August 1671, pp. 830-31.

36. Jules Fériel, Notes historiques sur la Ville et les Seigneurs de Joinville (Paris, 1835), p. 162. For other Guise burials at Joinville, see pp. 146, 149.

37. A.N., M.C., LXXV, 163, transaction, 20 December 1672.

38. Florence, Med. del Prin., 4669, Sept 11, 1671. In a declaration dated October 9, 1671, A.N., M.C., LXXV, 157, Mme de Guise declared that she would accept the guardianship of her son, for which she has been proposed, in collaboration with Mlle de Guise and Colbert, but that this will in no way affect her claim to and eventual acceptance of the garde noble of her son.

39. For this correspondence, see B.N., ms. Clairambault 1204, fols. 179-219.

40. B.N., ms. Clairambault 1204, fol. 200.

41. Med. del Prin., 4669, September 11, 1671.

42. B.N., D.B., 403, "Lorraine," fol. 25. The princess did indeed exist: she was baptised, but I have at the moment misplaced that document. I also noted that in Ms. 16214, fol. 296, of Harlay, there was a Mlle d'Assy, natural child of Louis de Lorraine and Charlotte des Essarts, who is probably the same person.

43. Florence, Med. del Prin., 4669, Sept. 11, 1671.

44. B.V., Barb. lat. 3525, fol. 604.

45. B.N., ms. Clairambault 1204, fol. 213.

46. Montpensier, Mémoires, IV, p. 305.

47. Montpensier, Mémoires, IV, p. 305.

48. Montpensier, Mémoires, IV, p. 306.

49. Med. del Prin., 2662, Bardi's report, under the date of September 27, 1671.

50. Florence, Med. del Prin., 4670, Nov. 6, Nov. 16, and Dec. 25, 1671.

51. Gallia Christiana, X, col. 113.

52. [For the moment I'm not bothering tracking down my notes about this office for the Immaculate Conception.... which I consulted at the BN, or the Mazarine, or Rodez library.]

53. A.N., M.C., XXIX-216, élargissement, August 27, 1672.

54. Dassoucy, Les avantures, ed. Colomby, p. 403.

55. Nuitter and Thoinan, Origines de l'Opéra, p. 164.

56. Nuitter and Thoinan, Origines de l'Opéra, p. 184.

57. Med. del Prin., 2662, October 31, 1670.

58. Med. del Prin. 4817, May 9, 1673.

59. André Tessier, "Robert Cambert à Londres," La Revue musicale, décembre 1927, p. 115, n. 1.