Return to list of activities, year by year
February 10 | First performance of Malade imaginaire |
February 17 | Molière dies |
March | Mme de Guise has returned to Paris and is preparing to move to the Luxembourg. She become official owner of half the palace circa April 10 |
March 7 | Privileged altar for the dead created in the chapel of the Virgin at St. Sulpice, the parish church for the Luxembourg Palace |
April 5 | Louis XIV and Mme de Guise (his first cousin) are godparents of a bell at St-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie |
April 20 | Mme de Guise and her household have occupied the Luxembourg |
April 21 | Mme de Guise is residing in Paris rather than at court |
April 23 | Mme de Guise is at Montmartre, where she receives Louis XIV |
April 30 | New "défenses" are issued on Lully's behalf: a maximum of two singers and six violins, and no "outside" singers can be hired |
May 4 | At Monsieur's chateau of Saint-Cloud, Mme de Guise attends an entertainment prepared by Henri Guichard |
May | Mme de Guise is thinking of alienating the garden of Hôtel de Guise to build a house |
May 6 | Several Bouts de l'An for the late Dowager of Orléans |
May 25 | Public prayers for the royal army are said in all Parisian churches |
June 1 | Mme de Guise receives the Corpus Christi procession of St-Sulpice at the Luxembourg for the first time |
June 2 | A son is born to Monsieur: Mme de Guise (his first cousin) has fireworks shot off |
June 8 | "Petite Fête-Dieu": Mme de Guise has prepared a "reposoir" at the Luxembourg |
June 13 | Te Deum for the birth of Monsieur's son |
July | Te Deum for Maestricht and fireworks at the Luxembourg |
July 18 | A taking of the veil at the Grande Carmel, with an "excellente musique" |
August | Mme de Guise has spent the summer at court |
September | Pierre Beaupuis (who is already a Guise singer or who soon will be) sings in a "tragédie" performed by the academy of Sieur Filz |
November | Mme de Guise is at the Luxembourg |
December 21 | An altar is blessed at Mme de Guise's parish church, St. Sulpice |