Return to list of activities, year by year
January | Mme de Guise is at court for Carnival season |
February 8 | Mlle de Guise organizes a gala lunch with dancing |
February 15? (or perhaps Feb. 20) | Monsieur, the king and the queen attend lunch at the Hôtel de Guise after visit to the Foire Saint-Germain |
March | Harlay de Chanvallon has ordered prayers for Louis XIV in all the churches of Paris (which of course includes the Mercy, the Theatines, the Jesuits... |
March 6 | Mlle de Guise's daughter takes the veil at Montmartre |
March 3-25 | Jubilee by Queen and Dauphin, who visit every church , including the Grand Carmel on March 23. |
March 12 | Mme de Toscane lunches with Mlle de Guise, then visits Mme de Guise at Luxembourg |
March 20 | Mme de Toscane again lunches with Mlle de Guise, then does a "station "of the jubilee with Mme de Guise |
March 22 | A sacre at the Jesuit Noviciate |
March-June | Goibault du Bois is very ill and bedridden |
April 2? or April 5? | Service at Charonne for late Dowager of Orleans |
April | Various Te Deums sung in Paris |
April 10 | Monsieur and Madame visit Montmartre, surely for tenebrae |
April 11 | Mme de Guise and the queen wash the feet of the poor |
April 22 | Te Deum for Cambrai. Mme de Guise and the queen visit the Carmelites of the rue du Bouloir, then attend a ball at the Hôtel de ville |
June-July 16 (and beyond) | Mme de Guise is in bed with a high fever at Luxembourg (a recurrence of her malaria?). Prayers to Sainte-Geneviève. |
July | The talents of Mlle "Jacquier" (Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, sister of future Guise musician, Anne Jacquet), age 10, cause a stir at court |
July 19 | Suspecting poison in Pierre Dalibert's death, the investigators working on the Poison Affair question Belleguise, his "caissier." (Dalibert was the uncle of Jacques II Dalibert, the Roman impresario.) |
July 19 | Mme de Guise still has her fever |
August | German gentlemen visit Montmartre and bring music to be performed |
Late August or September 9? | Mme de Toscane would prefer to be at Montmartre for the "coming feast of Virgin" but is invited to court |
September 10 | Mme de Guise probably is at court with Mme de Toscane, though her name isn't mentioned, which could mean that she was still weak from fever |
October 15 | The queen goes to Carmelites of rue du Bouloir for the feast of St. Theresa, but Mme de Guise isn't mentioned and may still be ill |
November | Mme de Toscane begins to work very hard on harpsichord; but no reference to lessons at Montmartre, so they must take place at Hôtel de Guise each week. |
December 6 | Mme de Guise is at court, but plans to return to Paris soon |
December 26 | Louis XIV goes to Montmartre (this is Mme de Guise's birthday!) |