The
Ranums'
Panat Times
Volume 1, redone Dec. 2014
The Correspondence of Albert Bailly
La Correspondance d'Albert Bailly (Aoste, 1999) published by the Académie Saint-Anselme under the direction of Gianni Mombello, with volume I transcribed and commented upon by Luca Giachino, volume II by Paola Cifarelli and volume III by Antonella Amatuzzi.
Christine of Savoy's agent in Paris during the 1640s was a certain Albert Bailly, a Barnabite. He had close contacts, even friends, in high places, including Marin Cureau de la Chambre; so his regular reports to the Duchess shed light on a lot that was going on in Paris. This edition of his correspondence This edition is superb, with a very effective system of cross references. There is a courtly air to some of the letters; there is mostly high intelligence and astute observation. No one should comment on Parisian politics in the 1640s without going through Bailly. What follows is my own personal and particular index. There are many other subjects that might well have been mentioned. Antonella Amatuzzi is to be thanked for sending me her (and the others') contribution to the edition. We became acquainted over some questions regarding BN, Mss fr. 25025-25026, which will eventually have to be put into a computer. (Pat Ranum long ago made a typed transcription.)
Volume I: 1643-1648
page 14 ― biography of Bailly
29 ― good note on Marie Christine
30 ― "pantes que Dieu m'a
donnée pour l'étude"
66 ― 10,000 bourgeois entrent dans le Palais;
Thoré is hazed
95 ― interesting on Charpy
101 ― Doujat
109 ― "l'astrologue
judiciaire"
115 ― no printed books on regencies
118 ― Talon's Jan.
16, 1648, speech
122 ― Berthaud, the castrato
128 ― Saint-Sorlin
133 ― on friendship, "liaison intime"
137 ― description of how grief
and love progress in the body
144 ― d'Hemery "plus puissant que
jamais"
151 ― he has access to registers of the Parlement.
165 ―
Louis, "insensible et réservé"
176 ― joining of chambers. Parlement =
self interest
194 ― not sympathetic to the Parlement
199 ― Cureau
de la Chambre, informer
206 ― Parlement wants to "attirer le peuple"
207 ― Daniel Voisin, his informer in the Parlement
212 ― Fronde as a
"tempête"
213 ― important note on Madame Royale
217 ― he is
pleased by d'Hemery's disgrace
219 ― d'Hemery tried to destroy
Séguier; really dangerous man
230 ― "Le Parlement se range"
240 ―
Digby on the Parlementaire troops.
241 ― 400 barricades. Colchester
holds firm.
242 ― double-check when Caesar's Commentaries was
translated by Louis XIV (?) and was printed.
243 ― on plaster in
Paris and humidity
245 ― "S.E. veut la paix." M. Rossignol, favorite
of SE, called a "mignon" earlier.
247 ― "Reyne fait assurer
principaux bougeois"
251 ― he recommences - propaganda from Turin -
favorable to Anne and Louis
251 ― Talk of Philippe being seized by
the Parlement
257 ― Hamilton affair; see also pp. 266-267
259 ― on
issue of Chavigny's release
269 ― "harangères"
275 ― rumors about
English battles
281 ― general review of Fronde, Oct. 1648
288 ―
Parlement has made its "peace", Oct 1648
301 ― Charpy, see also p.
312
303 ― quarrel, Parlement-University
304 ― England .... and
also Ireland, p. 319
309 ― "Elbeuf is broke" which confirms statement
by Retz
318 ― Broussels
319 ― Seine is high (also, p. 327!!)
323 ― "le peuple en est las"
326 ― Marie Christine compared with
Christina of Sweden
345 ― Mazarin's morning
353 ― Cureau de la
Chambre!
Volume II: 1649-1650
page 6 ― used Journal du
Parlement
49 ― his réseau includes Tardieu
51 ― M. de Saint-André,
gentilhomme de la Reine
60 ― "tempests" for civil war Piedmont
65
― Parlement gives money to Henriette Marie
69 ― They are trying the
king of England
70 ― "appearance that the end of world is near"
72
― price of wheat is high, Jan. 1649
73 ― exposing sacrament, preserve
Anne and Louis
77 ― young in Parlement do not want peace
78 ― "peuple
de Paris" doesn't want peace until Mazarin is out
83 ― Molé comes to
visit him
85 ― Peace of Saint-Germain
86 ― Retz remains silent.
Bailly sees him. Re Retz: "remuer cette grande machine"
97 ―
Blancmesnil and Broussel
90 ― April 9, 1649, bourgeois disarm
93 ―
harangère leads some "frippons"
99 ― pillage of a house
101 ―
"femmes manquent de respect"
102 ― excellent on Philippe d'Orléans
104 ― Anne receives the métiers
110 ― Broussel's relatives want him
to quiet down.
119 ― Beaufort: "délices du peuple"
120 ― situation
in Ireland
121 ― Lavie's fate
122 ― collecting mazarinades for
Turin (also pp. 125, 127, 174)
130 ― portrait of Christine of Savoie;
also p. 177
133 ― Cureau de la Chambre
134 ― Henriette Marie on
Charles I !
145 ― Civil war and pillage in the country
145 ―
window-breaking
145 ― on paying rents, "locataires"
146 ― "fureur
des peuples" and "imprimés"
146-7 ― Mlle de Pont and Duke of Guise
154 ― Louis Machon and Chavigny
159 ― England
160 ― Pontac
164
― "moral economy" of weapons, Paris
165 ― "séditieux"
185 ― maybe
Mazarin will command army !
190 ― Bailly on cutting penpoints
196
― "Ministre flambé"
198 ― summary of Jansenist views
207 ―
confirms Tallement on Thoré
211 ― Fairfax and Cromwell
217 ― Note
on Louis III de Brissac
221 ― French not giving money to Charles II !
222 ― excellent on "Egalistes" !
228 ― "bonnes paroles," Anne to "marchands"
232-33 ― interview with a "marchand" !
Volume III: 1651
page 6 ― relations between
letters, gazettes and mazarinades
33 ― dossier plan
57 ― "sacre du
roi," 20,000 francs
66 ― Louis giving Gaston a monstrous camel
67
― Seine is very high, Jan 1651
74 ― Molé declares for the princes, he
is cross because a fifth post of secrétaire d'État is not
created
for his son.
76 ― only Combalet and Servien in Mazarin's party
78
― Cardinal, lost ability to act, according to Bailly
81 ― on guards
searching princely carriages
82 ― Mazarin derided by Condé for his
accent. All excellent on political atmosphere at the moment of Mazarin's
departure.
89 ― Gaston won't come to a conseil if Mazarin is present
90 ― Gaston seeks written assurances
91 ― attempts to make a special
council including maréchaux de France
99 ― Condé, on release, kisses
and talks to his sword
101 ― Anne detests Chateauneuf, Villeroi
102 ― Anne has confidence in Servien
105 ― Anne's and Mazarin's
entrapment of Condé recounted
106 ― Parlement "surchauffé contre
Mazarin, "cette vagabonde Eminence"
110 ― horrible "musique des
colporteurs"
113 ― bourgeois guard the gates
115 ― Villetroy
received "conseillers honoraires au Parlement"
122 ― asserts it was
Mme de Chevreuse who convinced Mazarin to leave Paris.
123 ― "royaume
en combustion"; Mazarin called a "tiran"
125 ― "La Reyne adoucit fort
... elle possède entièrement le Roy, qui est merveilleusement sage
et discret"
126 ― Condé, reformed, "il ne voit plus de femmes"
131
― Chateauneuf becomes garde des Sceaux; "ce choix couteau à la gorge"
133 ― about Estates, Tours
138 ― he believes "tempestes"and "violences"
do not last long
143 ― extended council meetings
144 ― Le Tellier
on the way out?
145 ― Beaufort seeks Anne's favor
147 ― Bailly
sees Anne gaining in the Parlement and the princes losing
147 ― Talon
returns from seeing Mazarin
149 ― France, like the sea; France
dividing into two parts (corps)
151 ― menace against Anne, removing
Regency from her, like Charles VIII
152 ― Molé comes around to Anne
and is anti-Gaston; historical language on civil war,
conforms with
what Talon says in 1648
154 ― Retz's role
155 ― a Third Estate
meeting aux Carmes
162 ― desire to believe there will be peace
165
― Anne's treaty with Gaston - not from anywhere else! Mostly about
military powers, lieutenant général.
168 ― Bailly's theories on color
170 ― Mme de Savoie's reputation — a refrain
172 ― April 14, 1651,
Molé's fate. Anne acts on Gaston's orders
173 ― Gaston is happy,
victorious
177 ― So far Bailly does not anticipate Mazarin's return
181 ― office of "secrétaire du cabinet", 40,000 ecus. Anne pays
182 ―
Maisons's reputation
183 ― on negotiations with tax farmers; on La
Vieuville's return
184 ― he orders praise literature for Christine
186 ― reception at Maisons
187 ― "on parle du retour du Cardinal"
190 ― Does Séguier dissimulate re Mazarin?
191 ― Mme de Chevreuse's
return
192 ― on financial proposals - taxes, check with Dessert
193 ― royal dining ceremony, Louis XIV - on his education
203 ― "La
Reyne se rend tous les jours plus ferme"
204 ― negotiations with
financiers
208 ― "rapts" and duels
212 ― report on Mazarin's
ministère
215 ― Condé gets 800,000 livres !
219 ― Davila
221 ―
strange songs sung against Mme de Longueville
228 ― Parlement comes
toward Anne
231 ― on dissimulation - speaking far from one's thought
!
233 ― death of Chanoine Picot
235 ― preacher, "fulminant contre
Mazarin"
237 ― whole effort to impede Mazarin's return
238 ― long
discussions
256 ― trying to get Louis XIV to fall in love, sister to
Mme Beauvais
262 ― Bailly records anti-Mazarin sentiment
266 ―
Louis XIV's Commentaires published (see comment vol I, p. 242)
273 ―
lit de justice, Sept. 1651
280 ― Bautru; Charles II's troops
285 ―
re Mazarin, "le peuple menace"
293 ― on Mazarin's impatience !
294
― "secrétaire du cabinet", 100,000 écus, in fact it's 36,000
303 ―
finding money to pay rentiers and thus avoid a "tumulte"
307 ―
recognize the English Republic?
366 ― Condé, allied to the Spanish
342 ― royal authority increasing and enough to hold a public hanging
343 ― Cromwell won't ally with Condé.
344 ― Mazarin writes to Elbeuf
345 ― Séguier tells him Mazarin is coming. Bailly doesn't want Mazarin's
return but he respects
Séguier.
345 ― Theatins
348 ― metaphors
- stones and rocks, fronde. Gaston speaks well. Launching "foudres"
349 ― Mazarin "perturbateur"
350 ― on Roannès on Mazarin
351 ― a
rumor that 40 "filoux" have left Paris to try to kill Mazarin for the
reward
354 ― Anne has had 2 letters written by Louis XIV to Mazarin.
Louis not happy to do it.
360 ― Chevalier de Guise, Fete des Rois
365 ― royal music and tenebrae at Feuillants
370 ― Maisons receives
Anne and Louis at Maisons
374 ― Philippe gets a diamond for taking
his medicine
378 ― more on fete and Guise; Mlle has 6-7 violinists at
her disposal
386 ― on how the Cardinal looks after his trip: "parfumé"
388 ― rumors about kidnapping the king
389 ― "confiance publique"
390 ― Epernon accused of wanting to kidnap Louis; his carriage destroyed