The
Ranums'
Panat Times
Volume 1, redone Dec. 2014
Guise Activities, 1679
Return to list of activities, year by year
Note how, from the spring of 1679, when the Dauphin's musicians are first mentioned in the Mélanges, there is a sudden burst of the purple highlighting that suggests compositions written for the royal court. (This highlighting becomes especially marked in the charts for the early 1680s.)
| January 5 | Mme de Guise is in Paris for a few days. |
| Early January | It is so cold! Mme de Guise has gone to Versailles by January 13. |
| February 3 | Mme de Guise is back at the Luxembourg and goes on retreat for a few days. |
| February | Signature of peace treaty with Spain. |
| February 24 | Mme de Guise is in Paris and is entertaining frequently. |
| March 3 | Sung mass at abbey of Charonne in memory of Gaston d'Orléans. |
| March 20 | Pinon du Martroy, a relative of the Guise Charpentiers and a correspondent of the rich Charpentiers of Meaux, is implicated in the Poison Affair. |
| Spring | Earliest mention of the Dauphin's musicians, the Pièches, in Charpentier's notebooks. |
| March 3-April 7 | Mme de Guise is at court. |
| April 16 | Roquette of Autun presides over Mme de Longueville's funeral at the Great Carmel. |
| April 28 | Mme de Guise is in Paris. |
| early May | Mme de Guise leaves for Alençon. |
| May | Mlle de Guise promises Roger de Gagnières that the names of the "poor prisoners" will be kept secret. |
| May 12 | Fete at Saint-Cloud for Spanish marriage. |
| June | Sacre of Noailles, Sevin's successor to the bishopric of Cahors, at the abbaye of Saint Antoine. |
| June 9 | Revival of Le Sicilien with music by Charpentier. |
| June 21 | Roquette, bishop of Autun, receives his pallium at the Great Carmel. |
| July 11 | Revival of Le Dépit amoureux with music by Charpentier. |
| Summer | The Poison Affair leads to numerous executions. |
| August 25 | St Louis's Day: Pierre Le Brun offers the king a sung mass, with a "symphonie" by Charpentier. |
| September | Monsieur's daughter marries king of Spain by proxy. Festivities at Fontainebleau. |
| October 7 | François Chaperon is named music master of Sainte-Chapelle. |
| October | Arrests in Poison Affair now are being made in the Le Ragois milieu. |
| October 17 | Revival of L'Inconnu: Charpentier adapts music he had composed in 1678 for Riants. |
| December 10 | Mme de Guise is at court. |
| December | The king has asked Lorenzani to go to Italy and find five castrati. |