The
Ranums'
Panat Times
Volume 1, redone Dec. 2014
Guise Activities, 1676
Return to list of activities, year by year
| January (?) | Negotiations begin for a peace with Holland |
| January 31 | Mme de Guise has a gala lunch "with music" |
| January-July | Mme de Guise is often at court. She tries to sell the Luxembourg to Condé. She will be a court for Carnival. |
| February 10 | Monsieur and Madame go to Montmartre, where they are entertained by "music" prepared by Mme de Toscane |
| March 3 | Mme de Guise, Mme de Toscane and the queen visit the Carmelites of rue du Bouloir |
| March 16 | Bout de l'An for Alençon (if there was one) |
| April 3 | Monsieur and Madame attend sung tenebrae services at Montmartre. Mme de Montmartre has invited the king to attend. Many people attend. |
| April 13 | A fête at the Hôtel de Guise |
| April 17 | Brinvilliers is arrested |
| May | Mme Goibault du Bois dies |
| May 16 | A Lorraine d'Elbeuf takes the veil at the nuns of Sainte-Marie on the rue St.-Jacques, in presence of Mme de Guise, Mme de Toscane, and "all the princesses of the house of Lorraine." |
| May 22 to Pentecost | Mme de Guise is at St-Cloud, then to St-Germain -en-Laye for Pentecost |
| June 8 | Mme de Guise is in Paris for a few days |
| July 12 | Father Verthamon, S.J., (the uncle by marriage of Marie Talon-Voisin, who signed Elisabeth Charpentier's wedding contract in the early 1660s) gives a latin harangue in honor of Louis XIII and officiates at the pontifical mass that is part of the consecration of the Jesuit church of St. Louis |
| July 28 | The young Harcourt girl who is being prepared as abbess of Montmartre takes theveil in presence of the princesses of the house of Lorraine (which include Mlle de Guise) |
| July-August | Mme de Guise is at court |
| August-September | Capitulation of Aire and Maestricht; attacks by the Dutch. Monsieiur plays an active role in these battles. Te Deum sung at Notre-Dame on August 5 |
| August 7 | Mlle de Guise creates a hospital at Guise |
| August 7 | First performance of La Triomphe des Dames, with music by Charpentier |
| Mme de Guise promises to contribue 300 livres per year to the charitable activities of St-Sulpice | |
| September 7 | Mme de Guise is briefly at the Luxembourg |
| Fall | Both Barré's institute to prepare the teachers of the Infant Jesus, and the Hôtel de l'Enfant Jésus open their doors to pupils |
| October 5 | Baptism at Saint-Cloud of Duke of Chartres and Mlle de Chartres, the children of Monsieur and Madame (Mme de Guise is her godmother), followed by a collation and an "opera". The festivities included "converzatione di musica", which could refer to Charpentier's little dialogue. |
| October 15 | Mme de Guise and the queen visit the Carmelites of rue du Bouloir for feast of St. Theresa |
| October 23 | Mme de Guise is in Paris |
| November | Mme de Guise creates, at Alençon, a house for Nouvelles Converties, that is, new women converts to Catholicism, and she plays an active role in the conversion of a Huguenot woman at the Jesuit Novitiate (note: this is a rectification of May 2013. It was a silly mistake for me to say this happened at Saint-Louis!) |
| December 24 | The Orléans attend a "salut en musique" at the Theatines |