The
Ranums'
Panat Times
Volume 1, redone Dec. 2014
Guise Activities, 1678
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| January | Mme de Guise is in retreat with other charitable women beyond the Porte Saint-Martin. She will not join court for its trip to Lille, and Mme de Toscane will be passing a very calm Carnival season at Montmartre. |
| February 15 | Mme de Guise is again in retreat. |
| February | Charpentier's Acis et Galatée is played at Armand-Jean de Riants' home. |
| February 26 | Mlle de Guise gives a luncheon party. |
| March 31? | Louis XIV leads his troops to frontier and wins several battles. Te Deum are therefore sung in March and again in June |
| March 7 (18?) | Mme de Guise goes to court to visit the Dauphin. |
| March 11-25 | Mme de Guise is in Paris and attends luncheon parties at Hôtel de Guise. |
| March | Abbé Mathieu becomes curé of Saint-André-des-Arts, the parish of Jean Edouard, dancing master, and his wife, Elisabeth Charpentier. |
| March 31 | After a Te Deum at Notre-Dame, the three Orléans sisters host a party at the Luxembourg. |
| April 11 | Tenebrae services at Montmartre. |
| April | Mme de Guise is working closely with Denis Talon (the brother of Marie Talon-Voisin, the Charpentiers' friend) for charitable works of Saint-Sulpice parish. |
| April | The Tuesday or Wednesday lunches at the Hôtel de Guise contine each week, and Mme de Guise is also having numerous parties at the Luxembourg Palace. |
| May | Mme de Guise is present at the sacre of Le Tellier, former curé of Saint-Severin, who had just been named bishop of Digne. |
| May | Preparations for the signature of a peace treaty at Nimwegen in September. |
| May 15 | Mme de Guise leaves for a summer at Alençon . |
| May | Abbess of Lys is consecrated at Port-Royal of Paris by Harlay. |
| June 3 | Someone (it must be Mme de Toscane) goes with Mlle de Guise to the Capucines (the church where Mlle de Guise will be buried in 1688, near her late mother). |
| June 16-18 | "La Gaignière" is being questioned in Poison Affair. |
| July 23 | Benediction of Denis and Marie Talon's sister-in-law as abbess of Saint-Menehould in Lorraine, at the Jesuit church of St-Louis. |
| Summer | Paolo Lorenzani, the Italian composer, reaches Paris. |
| September 1 | A reform of the confraternity of Notre-Dame-de-Liesse at Saint- Sulpice. |
| September 18 | Publication of the peace treaty at the Hague. |
| October | Fete at Monsieur's house at Saint-Cloud, with Louis XIV as honored guest, to inaugurate the new part of chateau. Violent rains during the 5-day festivities. |
| November 9 | Death of Nicolas Sevin, bishop of Cahors, during a visit to Paris. (He is the brother of Sevin, the Séguier protégé who married one of Charpentier's cousins.) |
| December 15 | Signature of a peace treaty with Spain, followed by great festivities in Paris. |
| December 17 | Feast of the "Catherinettes" (old maids) organized by Mme de Guise and Grande Mademoiselle at the Luxembourg with "music" |