The
Ranums'
Panat Times
Volume 1, redone Dec. 2014
Guise Activities, 1683
Return to list of activities, year by year
The courtly events highlighted in purple correspond to pieces in Charpentier's notebooks. Charpentier was ill most of that summer and copied no new works into these notebooks.
| January 1 | High mass in music and musical vespers at Versailles for Circumcision, in presence of Dauphin and Dauphine. |
| January | The "Fête des appartements" continues at Versailles. |
| February 14 | Mme de Guise is at Versailles |
| February 20 | Mlle de Guise goes to Versailles to thank Louis XIV for choosing Mlle Harcourt as abbess of Montmartre. Mme de Guise is still at court. |
| April 5 | An opera by Lorenzani is performed at court. |
| April 5 | The Guises receive an Italian visitor at the Hotel de Guise. |
| May | Charpentier falls "fort malade" and withdraws from the competition for a mastership at the royal chapel. |
| May 19 | Jean Edouard is buried at Saint-André-des-Arts but Charpentier is absent. |
| May16-July | The royal family sets off with the court for a trip through Burgundy and the Franche-Comté, but the pregnant Dauphine remains at Versailles. |
| May 24 | Mme de Guise goes to Alençon. |
| June 17 | Corpus Christi procession at Versailles. |
| June | Charpentier is granted a royal pension. |
| July | Mme de Guise is ill and recuperates at Alençon. |
| July 30 | Death of the queen. |
| August 2 | All the churches of Paris hold a mass at 9 a.m. in honor of the late queen. |
| August 7 | Armand-Jean de Riants sponsors a sung solemn mass in memory of the queen. |
| August 16 | Mme de Guise returns to Paris where she will spend "four days"; thus far she has attended "none of the services for the queen." |
| September 13 | Solemn mass at the Mercy in honor of the late queen. |
| September 29 | St. Michael's Day: Foscarini, ambassador of Venice, is knighted at Fontainebleau. |
| December 20 | Pontifical mass sung in memory of the queen at the Carmelites of the rue du Bouloir, with music by Charpentier. |