Guise Activities, 1686

January 11	The troop performs the Malade imaginaire at court.
February 1	Mlle de Guise makes a donation entre vifs to ensure that the duchy of Guise will be transferred to a Lorraine.
February	The king begins to feel pain from a fistula.
February	Divertissements by composers other than Lully are being performed at Court, some of them for the Dauphin (Descente d'Orphée?)
Spring	Charpentier ceases singing with the Guise Music; the Quebec manuscript says he was, at that time, "maître de musique" at the Jesuit college -- but that could well mean that he had agreed to write some operas for the boys.
April 30	Baville decides to send 12 Barré girls to work with the New Converts in the South.
May	Death of Father Barré, of the Infant Jesus, who is succeeded by the less aescetic Ennemond Servien-Montigny.
May-June	Public prayers for the king, and festivities about his very brief recovery.
June 2, Pentecost	The Duke of Chartres is admitted to the Order of the Holy Spirit, with the Dauphin as his protector.
June 13	Louis XIV is well enough to march in the Corpus Christi procession, with the Dauphin at his side.
June 20	The "Little Fete Dieu" at Versailles.
August 30	Birth of the Duke of Berry: a Te Deum.
November 18	Louis XIV is operated on for a fistula.
December 20	Te Deum's are sung in every church in Paris, and people begin to celebrate the king's recovery.

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