The Ranums' Panat Times

Footnotes for "My Reading of the Evidence, 1676"

1. A.N., M.C., LXXV, 400, inventory, July 5, 1694.

2. Archivio di Stato, Florence, Med. del Prin., 4768, dossier 3, Jan. 31, 1676.

3. Florence, Med. del Prin., 4768, Feb. 8, 1677.

4. Florence, Med. del Prin., 4768, Nov. 17 and Dec. 11, 1676.

5. Florence, Med. del Prin., 4768, Nov. 13, 1677.

6. Florence, Med. del Prin., 4768, Feb. 19, 1677.

7. These musical events are mentioned in Florence, Med. del Prin., 4767, Aug. 23 and Nov. 8, 1675; 4768, Feb. 10, Feb. 24, June 12, June 15 and Nov. 27, 1676, and Aug. 2, 1677.

8. A.N., M.C., XCIX, 267, indemnité et donation, March 6, 1676.

9. For example, the Missale Romanum of Pius V (Bordeaux, 1607) shows the "Pie Jesu" as an integral part of the sequence, "Dies irae, dies illa," which was recited on the anniversary of a death as part of the "Missa in commemoratione omniuim fidelium Defunctorum." (This sequence was not, however, recited during the daily mass for the dead.)

10. Florence, Med. del Prin., 4768, March 9, 1676.

11. Florence, Med. del Prin. 4768, April 6, 1676; and Gazette, 1676, p. 264.

12. Hitchcock, "Comédie Française," p. 269, n. 35, suggests 1679 as a date for the composition of this song. For the subject book, see B.N., Rés. Yf 434, no. 12.

13. Clark, "Music at the Guenégaud," p. 106.

14. Archives de la Comédie Française, Register 8, fols 89-101 for "danseurs," and, for the trips to Compiègne and to Saint-Germain, fols 94v and 96v; and Clark, "Music at the Guenégaud," pp. 105-106.

15. A.C.F., Register 8, fol. 100v.

16. A.C.F., Register 8, fol. 97v.

17. On Mme Goibault, see Mesnard, Pascal et les Roannez, pp. 672-673.

18. Quoted by Mesnard, Pascal et les Roannez, pp. 172-173.

19. Arsenal, ms. 6631, shows her at Saint-Germain-en-Laye until January 14, 1676, when she returned to Paris. She was at court again between February 1 and April 3, between June 4 and June 18, and between June 22 and July 6. She may have spent part of the summer at Alençon, though she apparently saw her Parisian notary in August: A.N., M.C., LXXV, 182, fondation, August 11, 1676.

20. "La Liste veritable et generale de tous les Predicateurs," B.N., Rés. 4o LK7 6743, Advent, 1671: ".... les Meditations à 4 heures de relevée durant la neuvaine des Couches de la Sainte Vierge ...." Another source, dated 1648, says that the "représentations qu'il y a en forme de théâtre avec perspective" began at 3 o'clock, quoted by Evelyne Picard, "Liturgie et Musique à Sainte-Anne-la-Royale au XVIIe siècle, Recherches 20 (1981): 249.

21. Gazette, 1677, p. 16, about December 24, 1676.

22. Gazette, October 1676, p. 728.

23. Med. del Prin., 6265, October 4, 1676.

24. Gazette, August 11, 1672, in a special issue devoted to the "Feste de Saint Cloud"; and La Grange, Registre, p. 136.

25. Florence, Med. del Prin., 4768, Sept. 28 and Oct. 9, 1676.

26. Loret, Muze, III, pp. 355-356.

27. Abbé Rombault, "Elisabeth d'Orléans," pp. 489-91. In June 1687, Mme de Guise was still actively involved in conversions, B.N., ms. n.a. fr. 23162, fols. 118-119, an autograph letter dated June 26, 1687.

28. Gazette, 1676, p. 816.

29. Loret, Muze, November 1667.

30. For example, the Latin songs in her honor by Pierre Portes, Cantiques pour les Principales Festes de l'Année (Paris: Jean Guignard, 1685), pp. 164-169, tell only of the angels and the instruments that prise the immaculate wife and martyr. They say nothing whatsoever about conversion and baptism.

31. See Philippe Gourreau de la Proustière, Mémoires, ed. Béatrix de Buffévent (Paris, 1990), p. 530, who organized an Epiphany service in 1678 for the conversion of two Protestant girls, and held it on January 8, rather than January 6.