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THE VERY LATEST FROM OREST:
    There has been nothing new since December 2007: he has been swamped writing papers for conferences and book reviews. We hope a few things can be put on line before we go to Panat in late May, so tune in!

THE VERY LATEST FROM PATRICIA:
NEW: The Wedding Contract as a Creative Process: The format of a typical notarial contract, and some parallels that can be drawn with the format of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's autograph manuscripts

ALSO NEW: my transcription of letters written during a Guise journey through Champagne, 1680

See below for our "relatively recent" postings, mainly late 2007

Nous publions des pages et des documents sur l'histoire de Panat
and in October 2006 we published/et nous venons de publier ici:

•   A literal transcription of the Manuscrit of Pierre Prion

•   A letter from Queen Christina of Sweden to Pierre Bayle, 1686

•   A letter about the death of Vittorio Siri

•  And although it it not a "full transcription," Patricia has republished her 2001 article on the renovation of the Hotel de Guise, 1666-67, 'Feindre des poutres". The article reproduces the notarial contracts that Mlle de Guise signed with different contractors

•  And a Fugitive Piece about that describes the benediction of Mlle de Guise's sister as abbess of Montmartre in 1657

relatively recent from Orest:

December 2007: his paper on The Idea of Community in Asterix

September 2007: Book reviews of:

•   Jonathan Dewald: Lost Worlds
•   Luke  Morgan: Salomon de Caus

and book reviews from late 2006 and early 2007:

•   Florence Alazard on vocal music in four Italian city-states

•   Charting Change circa 1540, edited by Marian Rothstein

•   Sophie Gouverneur, Prudence et subversion libertines, la critique de la raison d'Etat

•   Andrea Frisch, The Witness (law, Rabelais, Montaigne, Thevet, Léry)

•   An essay on Dire et Vivre, edited by Fanny Cosandey

•   Orest's presentation of the Prion manuscript
         and A typescript of J.-L. Rigal's article on Prion (1956)

•   A transcribed source: "Memoires on the Secretaries of State" (1647)
         and Orest's presentation of the manuscript

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relatively recent from Patricia:

September 2007: Musings about some of the articles in the Actes of the Charpentier conference sponsored by the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles in 2004. Although these Musings are very technical, they should be helpful to musicologists and students of Charpentier!

Three interrelated Musings on Charpentier's Mélanges:

•   "Order" in Charpentier's manuscripts: are they really "out of order"?

•   What did cahiers 8, 9, 10 look like circa 1675?

•   C. Jane Gosine's article on Charpentier's handwriting styles

plus some Musings from late 2006 and early 2007 ...

•   Mlle de Guise and the "Battle of the Church Benches" at Guise

•   Denis Charpentier: some notarial acts involving Richelieu's faithful secretary

•  The decorative program in Mlle de Guise's country house near Bercy

•   A description of a banquet at the Hotel de Guise

•   A somewhat "fugitive" biography of Jacques II Dalibert, the Roman impresario

•   A reconstruction of the Mercy church

•   A complete version of Patricia's article on Notre-Dame de la Mercy

•   Dots at the beginning of a measure in Jacquet de La Guerre's songs

•   Factoids, that is, little facts that Patricia wants to share with you, to which she adds tidbits now and then!

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