The
Ranums'
Panat Times
Volume 1, redone Dec. 2014
Guise Activities, 1685
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| January 7 | Marguerite de Harlay, Chanvallon's sister, is named abbess of Port-Royal |
| January 8 | The Duke of Chaulnes's sister, the new abbess of the Abbaye-aux-Bois, is consecrated by Archbishop Harlay de Chanvallon. |
| January | The German musicians sing with the royal violins and appear in an opera. |
| January | The weather is unusually cold and snowy. |
| January 21 | Louis XIV is informed that the Elector of Bavaria (the Dauphine's brother) has married the Emperor's daughter, and the king delays acknowledging this wedding which is disadvantageous to France. |
| February 20 | An inventory is made of Jean Edouard's property, but Marc-Antoine Charpentier is not present (although he participated in a family conference a few days earlier and signed a document). |
| March | Marguerite de Harlay is consecrated as abbess of Port-Royal |
| March 3 | First performance of Le Rendez-vous des Thuileries, with music by Charpentier. |
| March | Now only three Bavarian musicians remain at court. |
| April 13 | The "Appartements" end for the season. |
| May | Having spent the winter at court, Mme de Guise leaves for Alençon. |
| June 20 | The Theatines create a "devotion for the dead" as at Roman oratories, and they name Lorenzani to be their music master. |
| July | Elisabeth Jacquet's "opera" is sung for the Dauphin. |
| Late July | Monsieur has a "grand régal" at Saint-Cloud, and an opera is performed. |
| July | The Hotel of the Enfant Jésus expands. |
| August | Mlle de Guise sells her duchy to a Lorraine d'Harcourt, with the right to buy it back. |
| August | The Duke of Richelieu is having a model made of his statue of Louis XIV and is preparing a fete for his country house at Rueil. |
| August 18 | The Bavarian musicians return home with a lot of musical manuscripts in their baggage. |
| September 3 | Louis XIV announces his intention to go immediately to Chambord, so Richelieu's "Feste de Ruel" is "rompue." |
| September 13 | Mlle de Guise founds, at Montmartre, a mass for the Virgin to be held every Saturday. |
| September 23 | First performance of Les Amours de Vénus et d'Adonis with music by Charpentier. |
| Early October | The Bavarian envoy is finally received by Louis XIV, after which Louis dispatches Bellefonds to congratulate the bridegroom (but only in his sister's name). |
| October | Elisabeth Mallier-Bailleul's grandson has been converting Protestants forcibly in the South. |
| November 12 | Goibault du Bois's translation of Augustine on conversion, and his "discours," are being sent to the musicians of the Grand Duke of Florence, along with a "libretto." |
| December 8 | "All of Alençon is now Catholic," the Protestants having converted in October. |