"Fugitive Pieces" are texts that are difficult to classify and that, for that reason, tend to go astray.
New Fugitive Pieces will eventually be added here. Meanwhile, here is the list of the Pieces re-formatted from Volume 1:
A Guise foundation at Saint-Jean-en-Grève, Paris (1649)
Nicolas Le Jeune’s “Hôtel de l’Enfant Jésus,” a school for the sons of the Parisian elites. Mme de Guise appears to have played a role in the creation of this "academy"
Father Barré’s Filles de l’Enfant Jésus
Mme de Miramion’s school for girls
The Mercy: A "bagarre" during a concert at the church, April 1687
The Jesuits: The relics of St. Paulin are brought to the collège in Mauriac (1655)
The Jesuits: The relics of St. Maxime are brought to the Collège de Louis-le-Grand (1693)
The Jesuits; Music at the Collegio Romano in Rome (1699)
The Jesuits: Paolo Lorenzani is paid by the Jesuits (1694)
The Jesuits: The “tones” a Jesuit uses in a sermon
A description of the benediction of the abbess of Montmartre (1657)
The last days of Chavigny and his connections to the Jansenists
A description of a service at Port-Royal-des-Champs
Statutes of the confraternity of Saint Anne at Panat (1423)
Mlle de Guise and her position as a princesse fille
Mme de Guise begs a favor from the Archbishop of Paris (http://ranumspanat.com/guise_harlay.htm)
Patricia’s article from Histoire et Archives about renovations to the Hotel de Guise, 1666-67, based on notarial documents : " 'Feindre des poutres pour faire Simmetrie aux vrayes,' La rénovation de l'hôtel de Guise, 1666-1667," published in Histoire et Archives no. 10, July-December 2001.
1680: letters from Mlle de Guise, Mme de Montmartre
and M. Du Bois
to Dr. Valant in Paris
A description of the benediction of the abbesse of Montmartre, 1657
The decoration of Mlle de Guise’s country house at Bercy
Mlle de Guise’s correspondence with Florence
Letters written during Mlle de Guise’s trip to Champagne, 1680
Some Guise notarial documents, 1660s to late 1680
The “Battle of the Churchbenches” at Guise, 1680
Philippe Goibaut (“M. Du Bois”): three letters and an inventory
A funeral oration for Mme de Guise
Mlle de Guise chooses a painting for her gallery
A banquet at the Hôtel de Guise, 1671
A letter on the death of Vittorio Siri
Letters written during Mlle de Guise’s trip to Champagne, 1680
A letter from Queen Christina of Sweden to Pierre Bayle
Two elegant notarial paraphes,1666
Some gossip from the Little Carmel of Paris
Newsletters by Monsieur de Saint-Frique and Monsieur de Sainte-Mesmes, 1670s and 1680s
The last days of Bouthillier de Chavigny
January 16, 1709, Plainte pour Estiennette Charpentier, fille majeure, contre Jacques Mathas
The decorative program in Mlle de Guise's country house near Bercy
Denis Charpentier, Richelieu’s secretary: some notarial documents
Estimation of the biens terriens of the comte de Panat, 1617
Philippe Goibaut (“M. Du Bois”): three letters and an inventory
Two elegant notarial paraphes, 1666
The death inventory and will of François Chapperon (Chaperon), maître de musique of the Sainte-Chapelle (1698) , which is accompanied by a discussion of his "taste"
Inventory of the chateau of Panat (1829) withdrawn at the request of the owner of the chateau
The will of Etiennette Charpentier, 1707, the composer's sister
Paolo Lorenzani, Scaramouche and the Florentines in Paris
Jean-Baptiste Lully: The Jansenists gossip about his morals and his
death
Herr Martin Mayr, the Duke of Bavaria's agent, tends to things musical in Paris,1680-85
Guillaume Pécourt, the dancer, is defamed
A 16th-century Italian model for the French-style rhetoric presented in my Harmonic Orator
NOUVEAU: Une dispute à propos de la réparation des fortifications de Panat (1495)
NEW:
D’Azémar, d’Adémar: how some dusty documents turned a young grenadier
into a count and courtier (The story of how the d'Adhémars of
Montfalcon, La Garinie and Panat proved their ancient nobility in the
1760s)
Le curé et le revenant (1691)
L'Affaire de l'Issalinie: L'Issalinie veut quitter la paroisse de Panat
La vente du presbytère de Panat comme bien national (An IV)
Les biens du curé de Panat, 1790
Quelques renseignements sur la croix de bois entre Panat et Nuces, et son inscription énigmatique
Réponse à la pétition de modifier les limites de la commune de Panat (1815)
Un contretemps entre Monsieur Bancalis Lormet d'Issalinie, et le comte de Panat (1816)
Les frais de la justice (1782)
La famille d'Adhémar vers 1820, selon Boisgelin
Le livre de muances pour la taille à Panat, XVIIe siècle
L'estimation des biens terriens du comte de Panat, 1617
Les biens des Adhémar de Panat, 1829: un petit cahier sur l’agronomie