Return to list of activities, year by year
January 20 | Mlle de Guise organizes a Te Deum at the new church of Montmartre, in thanksgiving for the king's recovery. |
January 30 | Mme de Guise hosts a grand fete at the Luxembourg to celebrate the king's recovery. |
January | Monsieur entertains the Ambassador of Siam at Saint-Cloud and has L'Inconnu performed, doubtlessly with Charpentier's music. |
February 8 | Service in honor of Louis XIV's recovery at the Académie des Beaux Arts, with music by Charpentier. |
February | Celse Martyr performed at the Jesuit college, with music by Charpentier. |
May 10 | Louis XIV and the Dauphin set off for the northern frontier. |
June 5 | The Dauphin attends the "Petite Fete Dieu," having dashed back to Versailles. |
June | Archbishop Harlay de Chanvallon is very ill. |
July 20 | The Cordeliers organize a sung mass at Port-Royal of Paris, to honor the abbess and to thank God for the archbishop's recovery. Musical vespers end the day. |
November 13 | Mme de Guise has returned from Alençon; Mlle de Guise's health is very poor. |
November 22 | The first annual St Cecilia's Day fete for the musicians of Versailles. |
November24 | The Dauphin attends an "Italian" opera. |
Early December | Mlle de Guise is dying from cancer. Roquette comes to Paris. (Mlle de Guise dies on March 3, 1688.) |