1655 in France

This page relates to the year 1655 Gregorian Calendrier.

January

Friday the 1st er January: Cosnac arrives of Montpellier at Paris to put order in the businesses of Conti. It especially will claim with Mazarin the government of Guyenne and in addition Château Trumpet.
January 2nd: Cosnac gives a a report on the resources of Conti, which all are obérées by many loans or advances.
January 7th:

Died of the 236e pope, Giovanni Battista Pamphil, which had taken the name of Innocent X, said In decimus , born the 6 or May 7th, 1574 in Rome, Papal States. He is elected on September 15th, 1644. Back-back-back-small-wire of Alexandre VI.
the king refuses the contest of Retz for the election of its successor and interdict with all the cardinals of the faction of France to communicate with him.

January 15th: Opening of the conclave. The French cardinals would like to make elect the cardinal Giulio Sacchetti, who was bishop of Fano candidate of Mazarin. Retz supports on the contrary the cardinal Fabio Chigi, known like adversary of the minister and who will be finally elected unanimously.

Riots in Berry directed by Hook.
Blaise Pascal remains in Vaumurier, then with Port-Royal-of-Fields with the recluses, during approximately three weeks; probable date where the Entretien would have been held of Pascal with Mr. of Sacy.
New currency (small), the Black poplar.
Retz settles sumptuously with the palate of Our-Lady-of-Lorette thanks to the money which his/her friends lent to him. Mazarin claims that it is paid by the Spaniards or the Jansenists.

Refusal of the discharge to the duke of Liancourt for Jansénisme. Drafting of the Letter to a person of condition of Antoine Arnauld. Charles Picoté, vicar of Saint-Sulpice, had refused the discharge with the duke of Liancourt.
Cosnac arrives at Paris in charge by Conti of various missions (negotiation of the government of the Languedoc in particular).
Miss is very impressed by the accidental death of a gentleman who accompanied his friends, M and Mrs. de Mataha.

February 2nd: Drive out, the Miss learns death from apoplexy of one of its officers. She sees there predicts it that the year will be bad.
February 7th: Baptized the 8, Jean-François Regnard, writer (1655-1709).
February 14th: Marriage of Miss of the Alder with the count of Fayette. Madam de Sévigné sign with the contract.
February 24th: Lettre of a doctor of Sorbonne to a person of condition on what arrived recently in a parish of Paris at a lord of the Court of Antoine Arnauld.

Answer to some requests whose explanation is necessary to time present of Pascal at the P. Annat, Jesuit, confessor of Louis XIV.

Saturday March 20th: Recording of the bursaux edicts (bearing creation of taxes) by a Bed of justice. 17 tax edicts (creation of 46 loads of secretaries of the king, taxes on the baptisms and the burials, of rights on the parchments and stamped papers)
March 22nd: Departure of Miss for Orleans to join there as with accustomed the Mister. But this one is not there. He suffers from a finger.
March 24th:

Miss arrives at Blois.
Cosnac share of Paris, to join Conti with Montpellier, but while passing by Lyon and its diocese (Valence).

March 25th, Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, a Natural satellite of Saturn. He discovers that Saturn is surrounded by a ring.
March 27th: The count de Béthune (Maximilien, wire of famous the Sully) informs Miss that Mister wants to see it. Sour maintenance on the end of their quarrel on the supervision which Gaston had had on his daughter.
March 28th: Easter. Five days after its departure of Paris, Cosnac is with Montpellier.

Thursday the 1st er July: A sergeant arrives at Saint-Fargeau to enjoin Miss not to touch his incomes of the Dombes.
July 9th: A report in thirty-two articles enumerating the crimes of Retz arrives to Rome. Lioness press the pope to finish some.
July 10th: Second Letter with a duke and even of Antoine Arnauld.
July 14th: Catch of Landrecies by the French. It will be followed of that several other places. Louis XIV is present during all this countryside.
July 23rd: The king is with Guise, it comes from Fère.
July 28th: ** Death of Savinien de Cyrano of Bergerac writer and dramatic author, Edmond Rostand took as a starting point this man to write Cyrano of Bergerac .
July 31st: Treaty of pacification of Pignerol, regulating the problem of Vaud temporarily. It is signed thanks to Abel Servien and Ennemond Servien, ambassador of France.

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