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opening page of Patricia's "Musings" The Four Charpentier siblings and their kinAfter so many years of alluding to one or another of Marc-Antoine's family, I have painted word-portraits of the composer's siblings in my new book, Portraits around Marc-Antoine Charpentier; but I am retaining her my original Musings on these four Charpentiers. First of all, there is the oldest sister, Étiennette Charpentier, a maîtresse lingère. I have prepared a short presentation of her two wills which cast quite a bit of light on the Charpentier family as a whole. There is Marie Charpentier, a nun at Port-Royal of Paris, about whom you can read in the article devoted to her. Next came Élisabeth Charpentier, who in 1662 married Jean Édouard, a dancing master and instrumentalist. You can read about the couple in a separate article devoted to this couple.
Then came Marc-Antoine Charpentier ... that fascinating "black hole" who has continually eluded my clutches in the archives and libraries yet who left us such fantastic manuscripts... and, last of all, there is Armand-Jean Charpentier, a scrivener and royal engineer. I trust you will like this evocation of the interpersonal relationships in a Parisian family whose members (save for Mathas) appear to have been honest, well-connected, hard-working, devout, intelligent, and well-spoken .... but who, despite their hard work and their protectors, remained modestly obscure and always a bit short of cash. Meet the Charpentier family!
Marie, converse nun at Port-Royal
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