1649 in France

This page relates to the year 1649 Gregorian Calendrier.

Chronology of France

1648 in France - 1649 - 1650 in France

Plague with Marseilles and into high Auvergne.
Bad harvest of grains. Food shortages and epidemics (1649 - 1652). The rural population decreases.

January

Friday the 1st er January: Dubuisson-Aubenay: " This first New Year's Day, cold black and covered, tending to thaw. The Queen was to the Jesuits of the street Saint-Anthony, with vespers, for the celebration of the name of Jesus, and with the sermon of the abbot of Chanvallon, nephew of the archbishop of Rouen, which preached one hour and half with approval and admiration of everyone. "
January 3rd: The decisive Council for the exit of the court out of Paris. It is held at Mister, which is victim of an attack of drop. The cardinal is for the departure. Mister and Condé is reticent.
5 - January 6th: Harms of the Kings, the Cour takes refuge with Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer. The queen festival the kings, lay down Louis XIV and his brother, the duke of Anjou. After midnight, it lies down. Is raised and made raise the king and the duke of Anjou. It borrows with them a catch staircase which leads to the garden of the Palais Royal. Fit with body prepared by Beringhen await them and lead them to the course the Queen. The queen and her children find there princes, Mrs. de Villeroi, Villequier, captain of the guards of district, Guitaut, captain of the guards of the queen, Comminges, her lieutenant and Madam de Beauvais, first chambermaid of the queen. They will turn over to Paris only during the summer. This same night, Bussy-Rabutin, which flees the revenge on the Miramion, has the greatest evil to pass the Porte Saint Martin's day. The queen ordered with Gondi (the Retz future) to follow it to Saint-Germain. As it does not reach that point, the Slingers having closed the doors of the city, it joined the camp of the rebellion.
January 6th: Ordered by Cop, the royal troops begin the investment of Paris. Thus the first countryside of the Fronde starts. Henri de Sévigné follows the Duc of Longueville in Normandy. Sévigné will be critical.
January 7th: The king orders the transfer of the Parlement to Montargis. He is not obeyed. The duke of Elbeuf comes to offer his services to the magistrates.
January 8th: The Parlement declares Mazarin " enemy of the king and the State " and " disturbing of the public rest ". It recruits an army and organizes resistance. It should be noticed that during the Sling everyone calls upon the king.
January 9th: Departure of Conti, Noirmoutier, Rochefoucauld, the night from January 9th to 10th 1649 of Saint-Germain towards Paris, beginning of the Sling of the princes. Gourville, domestic of Rochefoucauld, makes a rather confused account of it.
January 10th: Arrived at Paris of the prince of Conti and the Duke of Longueville, brother and brother-in-law of Condé, which join the camp of the Parlement.
January 11th: The prince of Conti is, thanks to the intrigues of Gondi, named généralissime of the Sling with, like assistants, the duke of Elbeuf, the duke of Bouillon and the marshal of Mothe who will order the troops in turn. Conti is thus temporarily opposite with his/her older brother, Condé.
January 12th: Catch of the Arsenal and the Bastille by the Sling the USSR. The son of Broussel, Jerome, lord of Louvières, takes the command of it.
January 13rd: Beginning of believed of the the Seine. flooded Paris.
January 14th: Flood: the Suburb Saint-Anthony and the Marais are under water as well as the island Saint-Louis and the Saint-Germain suburb. Following its escape, Beaufort, which had lived hidden, reappears in front of the Parlement of Paris.
January 15th: Catch of Corbeil by the soldiers of Cop.
January 18th: Letter of the Parliament of Paris at the Parliaments of province to engage them with resistance. Gondi, coadjutor of Paris, is installed with the Parlement like advising of honor-born, in the place of his/her uncle the archbishop. He makes sign with all the chiefs of the Sling a promise of union against Mazarin (they are in particular Beaufort, Bouillon, Noirmoutier, Rochefoucauld, etc).
January 20th: An incident between servants causes the insurrection of Aix. Two people had been killed. Some time earlier, with the procession of Saint-Woodland, a rumor: as soon as the procession would have left the enclosure of the city, the count of Alais on their premises would assassinate all the Slingers which would have had misfortune to remain downtown. Crowd runs to the weapons and plunders the houses of the friends of the count d' Alais. Day of the Barricades with Aix-en-Provence. The count of Alais, governor of the province, is besieged in his palate. There remains locked up there for two months. Very remarkable mechanism of the rumor: a fiction produces a completely real effect, him. Unhappy consequence of the migratory and commercial currents, the high Auvergne and the town of Marseilles are, during the year, reached by the Peste.
January 23rd: The Régente convenes the General states for on March 15th.
January 25th: Gondi pronounces a political sermon against Mazarin with the Saint-Paul church. During this time, the Duc of Longueville seizes the Old man-Palate with Rouen. The Parlement of Normandy decides for the Sling.
January 28th:

Left the slingers in direction of Borough-the-Queen. The Corinthian , the light horsemen of Gondi, are made cut in parts with the bridge of Antony by the troops of the king. Renaud-Rene, knight of Sévigné orders the regiment of Corinth, one called his exit " the first with the Corinthians ". The royal forces remove Brie-Count-Robert, not decisive for the food of Paris.
Night of the 28 with the January 29th: Birth of Charles-Paris, count of Saint-Paul, wire of Mrs. of Longueville and, " with known of all the universe " , of Rochefoucauld. The duchess of Longueville was confined, with the Town hall where it resided. It is Gondi (the future cardinal of Retz) which baptizes this child, fore-mentioned Charles-Paris (homage to the city), in the church of Saint-Jean-in-Strike. The godfather is the Prévôt of the merchants, Féron, the godmother the duchess of Bubble. He was count of Saint-Paul, then duke of Longueville in 1671 and was killed in the passing of the Rhine in 1672. He was friendly abbot of Choisy.

February

Tuesday February 2nd: Summations of the court to the Parisian ones. Plundering and " brûlement " of Seals by Cop.
February 8th: Cop, after a bloody combat, takes Charenton and threatens the supply of the capital, largely operated by inland waterway. Condé makes throw in the the Seine the mutilated and still alive bodies. Condé makes good figure with Bussy the time of engagement.
February 8th - April: Condé besieges Paris with 12 000 men
February 10th: Fights in the plain of Villejuif. An important convoy of vivres can enter to Paris. Charles de Beauvau, lord of Nerlieu or Noirlieu are killed by the duke of Beaufort.
February 12th: The Parlement refuses to receive the Héraut of weapons which sends to him Anne of Austria.
February 15th: Gaston of Orleans makes decide with the Council regency of mander to the court people of the king (prosecutors to the Parlement). It was to start the negotiations, known as Dethan, one of the biographers of Gaston.
February 16th: Catch of Montlhéry by the royal army. The road of the Beauce is cut.
February 19th: The Parlement gives audience to an envoy of the archduke Léopold-Guillaume de Habsbourg, governor of the Spanish Netherlands. A convoy of vivres coming from Brie-Count-Robert enters Paris. Rochefoucauld is seriously wounded in this engagement, of a blow of gun to the throat. It allots its misfortunes to Noirmoutier. It returns nevertheless to Paris. The news of the execution of Charles Ier of England arrives at Paris.
February 25th: A parliamentary delegation is received with Saint-Germain.
27 - February 28th: Popular emotions with Paris.
February 27th: Mazarin attracts Rantzau with Saint-Germain. He was locked up in Dunkirk and one feared that he did not deliver the place against money (one knows even the sum). Rantzau is stopped. It had lost a leg with the seat of Arras (in 1640) and was estropié with a hand. It is held eleven months. It catches, during its detention, a Hydropisie, it will die about it shortly after its exit.

the Red Pont crumbles partly, effect of the floods. It had been built in 1632, one called it also Barbier bridge. It had replaced a vat which left its name to the Rue of the Vat. Thrown between the Tileries and the street of Beaune, it burns in 1656. Rebuilt out of stone in 1689, it becomes the Bridge-Royal . In the vicinity, a water pump built by Pierre Pidou.

March

Monday the 1st er March: Failure of the marshal of Turenne which wanted to help the Fronde the USSR and which its troops give up.
4 - March 11th: Negotiations of Rueil between the court and the Parliament. The Setier of wheat to 60 books.
March 9th: Auction of the pieces of furniture of Mazarin.
March 11th: Signature of the Peace of Rueil which puts an end to the parliamentary Fronde: maintains twenty-seven articles, amnesties with the rebels, right of meeting for the parliamentary assemblies… The Parlement accepts the agreement at the beginning of April. Included/understood in the amnesty, Rochefoucauld is treated by the queen as a man to fear and spare. He obtains the Honneurs of Louvre for him, and his wife the Tabouret - favors revoked the year even, on the complaints of some important characters.
March 13rd: Popular demonstration, organized in writing pad by Gondi, with Paris against the Peace of Rueil.
March 15th: The project of peace is accepted by the Town hall.
March 17th: Resumption of negotiations between the court and the Sling with the castle of Saint-Germain. The avant-garde of a Spanish army come from the Spanish Netherlands arrives around Soissons.
March 22nd: The marshal of the Plessis-Praslin pushes back the Spaniards.
March 27th: End of the conference of Saint-Germain.
March 29th: With Bordeaux, an assembly held in the town hall proclaims her solidarity with the Parliament of this city, which is itself interdependent of that of Paris. Beginning of the Ormée, Sling of Bordeaux.
March 30th: Agreements of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer, accepted by the Parliament. Repression against the authors of Mazarinades maintains a certain tension though justice discharges them most of the time.

April

Thursday the 1st er April: The Parlement records the royal declaration following the concluded agreement with Saint-Germain which takes again the clauses of the Paix of Rueil and distributes many favors to the generals of the Fronde. End of the parliamentary Sling.
April 2nd: Publication of the royal Declaration, bearing amnesties general, giving each one in its goods and honors. The king does not require any more of the Parlement the recording of the Declaration of Saint-Germain, nor the suspension of its assemblies. The maximum of the loan to be made in two years is fixed at 24 million books.
April 8th: The Grande Miss is with Paris to return visit to the Queen of England and with its " second wire, Mr. the duke of York: it venoit of Holland of auprès his/her sister the Orange princess, where it avoit be since it étoit saved prison, where one it avoit held a long time in England. It étoit at the time a young prince from thirteen to fourteen years, extremely pretty, well done and beautiful of face, fair, which parloit well François; what him donnoit a better air than with the king his brother; because nothing disfigures a man so much, with my liking, like being able to speak: it parloit extremely by the way, and I left the conversation, which we had together, extremely built of lui.tous two in exile. The Large Miss receives itself forces visits. "
April 12th: Arrival of the duchess of Chevreuse to Paris at 11 a.m. She came from a draft of Cambrai. She was with Brussels since 1645.
April 15th: Return of Gaston of Orleans to Paris. He is celebrated. But the royal family does not follow. She waits that Beaufort cease to agitate the people.
April 30th: The court leaves Beaufort for the Château of Compiegne in order to supervise the border of Picardy.

May

Saturday May 22nd: Within the framework of the general reconciliations, project of marriage enters the duke of Mercœur, older brother of Beaufort and Laure Mancini, niece of Mazarin.
May 26th: Victoire of the duke of Épernon, Governor of Guyenne, on the slingers of Bordeaux come to attack Libourne.

the Pascal, fleeing the disorders of the Sling, will live at Périer, with Clermont-Ferrand.
Gondi announces its rallying. A little later it binds with the duchess of Chevreuse returned in Paris and becomes the lover of Miss of Chevreuse, his daughter.

June

Wednesday June 9th: Or June 14th. Furious to have had to yield to the Parliament, From Went left Aix, raised an army of the surrounding nobility and returned to beat the troops of the Parliament to the battle of the Valley, close to Draguignan. Mazarin sends to Aix police chiefs to regulate the problems definitively. The power struggle is as regards governor, the Parliament moves back on all the subjects of litigation.
June 15th: Retz tells the incident in its Mémoires . Retz and its friends, in particular Beaufort, worried about the arrogance of these young people gandins, of the party of the cardinal , among which Jarzé and duke of Candale. It was a question of knowing which would hold the top of the paving stone. Such was the direction of the mission entrusted to the King of the Markets. Beaufort car tablecloth of the guests (among whom the duke of Candale of Jarzé to the Garden of Fox (kind of inn in edge of the garden of Tileries). A duel is decided. Mister adapts then the parts.
June 24th - July 3rd: Failure of the count of Harcourt in front of Cambric.

June - September: The disorders of Bordeaux continue. Of Épernon in spite of its repression the authority does not recover on the city. Chéruel: " the parliamentary Fronde burst with Bordeaux at the time when the calm one appeared restored with Paris. "

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