1656 in France

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Chronology of France

1655 in France - 1656 - 1657 in France

January

Saturday the 1st er January: Cosnac sermon at the house professes Jesuits in front of the king, the queen mother, three cardinals and more than fifty bishops.
January 2nd: On the council of the pope, Retz designates as general vicar the priest of Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles, André of Saussay, recommended since 1649 as bishop of Toul and all devoted to Mazarin. It mandement accompanies its by three letters, addressed to Louis XIV, the queen Anne of Austria and to its suffragan. Mazarin returns to him without to have opened them.
January 3rd: Died of Mole, chancellor of France.
January 11th: Pierre Séguier, adviser with the Parliament of Paris, Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer, takes again the Seals with Molé and keeps them until its death, the January 28th 1672.
January 14th: The Sorbonne vote censure of the Large Arnauld on the issue of fact. The faculty of theology degrades the Grand Arnauld. Made without precedent, it is striped list of the doctors.
January 23rd: Publication of the first of the Written letters to provincial with one of his/her friends, on the subject of the arguments present of the Sorbonne of Pascal (fine the March 24th 1657).
January 28th: Retz had charged with the Saussay with lending on its behalf oath of fidelity to the king. Although Saussay did anything of it, Retz makes placard the text of the known as oath on the walls of Paris.
January 29th: Second Written letter with provincial a of Blaise Pascal, published the February 5th.
January 31st: Conclusion of the censure of the Large Arnauld by the Sorbonne.

January-April: Bossuet seat with the Parliament of the Three orders.

February

Thursday February 3rd: Henriette-Marie, widow of Guillaume de Nassau, prince d' Orange, arrived at the court on February 3rd, 1656.
February 5th: Publication of the Second written letter to provincial a of Pascal.
February 9th: Third written letter with provincial a of Pascal, published 12.
February 12th: Publication of the Troisème written letter to provincial a of Pascal.
February 20th: Sexagésime.
February 25th: Fourth written letter with provincial a of Pascal.
February 25th: Died Madam of Guise (Henriette-Catherine of Merry), at the age of sixty and eleven years. It is about that which was mediation between Mister and Miss and which in the passing disinherits Miss, its grand-daughter.
February 27th: Quinquagésime.

Mazarin sends to Blois Alphonse, his ten year old nephew, cornaqué by the duke of Amville, first rider of Gaston. The peace of Gaston with the court is made.
Voyage of Miss to Lésigny with six miles of Paris. She does not buy the house, but it is a pretext to receive the people come from Paris to greet it. Stay of three or four days.

March

Tuesday March 7th: Peace is restored in Baden thanks to the mediation of France and the neutral remained cantons.
March 19th: Bossuet gives to Metz the Panégyrique of saint Joseph .
March 20th: Dispersion of the pupils of the Small Schools of Port-Royal-of-Fields: Etienne Périer comes to live in his uncle. The same day, appears the Fifth written letter with provincial a of Pascal.
March 23rd: A first treaty between France and England had been concluded on November 3rd, 1655. A second treaty, by which the English were to act in.liaison.with France, is signed.
March 24th: Miracle of the holy spine with Port-Royal. Cure of Marguerite Périer, niece of Pascal, after having touched the reliquary of the Holy-Spine.
March 27th: Beaufort will see Mister with Blois in the hope to support a compromise. It is accompanied by Epinay, the envoy of Miss.

Miss will hear a preacher with Notre Dame of Auxerre to nine miles of Saint-Fargeau.
Nicolas Fouquet constitutes with the profit of the Collège of Clermont of which he was the pupil a revenue of 1 000 pounds for the purchase of books. It will make there build two years a library later.

April

Tuesday April 4th: Towards the 4, Displacement of Miss in Chateauneuf. It there falls ill. Mister believes that she wanted to go to her meeting to Orleans. Force anger of Mister.
April 10th: Sixth written letter with provincial a of Pascal.
April 13rd: Miss: " the Maundy Thursday, in the morning, like I habillois, one says to me that the ordinary one of the king étoit there. I made it enter: it gave me a letter of Its Majesty, by which she me ordonnoit to say to the sior of Aubeville all the things which seroient necessary to inform Mr. chancellor of my business. "
April 14th: Good Friday said also Great Friday.
April 15th: Beaufort returns visit to Miss after being last in Orleans.
April 16th: Easter. Beaufort and Béthune makes their jubilee with Miss in Châteauneuf. One week shift of the Easter Day according to Miss and our own calculations.
April 17th: With the point of the day, departure of Beaufort and Béthune for Orleans where is still Mister.
April 23rd: Low Sunday.
April 27th: A declaration organizes the institution of the general hospitals, at the origin of large “renfermement of the poor” and the vagrants.
April 25th: Seventh written letter with provincial a of Pascal.
April 27th: With Paris, edict of foundation of the General hospital to fight against the begging. It is open on May 7th, 1657 and becomes a place of detention for the poor ones.

April-May: First reply to the Letters which the Jansenists publish against the Jesuits.

May

Sunday May 7th: Bossuet pronounces the First Sermon on Providence , in holy Chapelle of Dijon, in front of the duke of Épernon.
May 15th: Saussay having managed the diocese of Paris in collaboration with the bishop of Coutances Claude Auvry (treasurer of the Ste Chapelle, hero of the Lectern of Boileau), friend of Mazarin, is revoked by Retz. Knight, Lavocat, Chassebras and Hodencq are restored in the functions of general vicars. The text of Retz is posted in Paris. The court of France is indignant. With Castel Gandolfo, the pope repudiates Retz.
May 20th: Marriage of Elisabeth de Bouillon with Charles of Lorraine, prince d' Harcourt. One finds in the Mémoires of Saint-Simon of long details on the claims of the dukes of Bubble to the title and the rank of princes.
May 25th: Rise of Fouquet: it receives all the court with Saint-Mandé.
May 28th: Eighth written letter with provincial a of Pascal.

Birth of a first girl, Mrs. Deshoulières, Antoinette-Therese, known as later Miss Deshoulières, the only one of his/her children called to survive to him.

September 9th: Twelfth written letter with provincial a of Pascal.
September 15th: Arrival with Chantilly of Christine of Sweden.
September 16th:

Mazarin learns the presence from Retz to Besancon. It is believed that it will return to France and one prepares oneself to stop it.
Arrived at Compiegne of Christine of Sweden.
the duke of Mercœur takes Valance in Italy. The gouvenor, gift Agostino Signado capitulates after a vigorous resistance.

September 23rd: Departure of Compiegne of Christine of Sweden.
September 25th: A letter of cardinal of Retz to the Parliament of the clergy, clandestinely printed, arrives at Paris. She threatens to throw the interdict on the diocese if its spiritual and temporal rights of archbishop are not returned to him. Anxious, the royal government releases Chevalier, internee with the Bastille, and authorizes Hodencq to take again its functions.
September 26th: The government requests the pope to launch a brief against Retz.
September 27th: Turenne takes Capelle (in the North-East of Guise).
September 28th:

the government orders with the Assemblée clergy to condemn Retz.
Fouquet sumptuously receives Christine of Sweden to Meudon.

September 30th: Thirteenth written letter with provincial a of Pascal.

Fouquet requires death against Claude Vallée of Chenaille, nephew of Hervart which had wanted to give the place of Saint-Quentin (by gaining its captain) to Condé. He does not obtain the necessary sorrow.

October

Monday October 2nd: Bossuet seat with the Faculty of theology (1st seven. - Oct. 2. - Nov. 4. - Dec. 2).
October 10th: Birth of Nicolas de Largillière, painter.
October 16th:

Alexandre VII, by the bubble AD Sacrum beti Petri sedem , reaffirms the presence in the Augustinus , of the five condemned proposals.
a stop of the Council orders to stop Retz if it is met and to return it to the pope to be judged.

October 22nd: Sentence of approval of the miracle of the Holy-Spine.
October 23rd: Fourteenth written letter with provincial a of Pascal.
October 31st: A mysterious letter arrives at Paris. Signed Retz, it appoints general vicar the canon of Tales, senior of the chapter, in the place of Knight. After which, Retz does not give any more signs of life and one almost entirely loses his trace during months.

November

Saturday November 4th: Bossuet seat with the Faculty of theology (1st seven. - Oct. 2. - Nov. 4. - Dec. 2).
November 4th: Bossuet gives the Panegyric of saint Charles Borromée, with Paris, Saint-Jacques-of-the-Butchery (?).
November 25th: Fifteenth written letter with provincial a of Pascal.
November 25th: Bossuet gives the Panegyric of holy Catherine to Paris (?).

Fouquet requires against Arnauld and the Jansenists.
Second part of the Impostures of the P. Nouet.
November-December: First stay of Pascal to Port-Royal-of-Fields.
November 1656 - July 1657: Retz voyage under false names. It passes most of the winter to Constance. Then by Ulm, Augsburg and Frankfurt, it gains the Holland, where it remains in various cities.

December

Friday the 1st er February: All Saints' day. Miss returns visit to the abbess of Jouarre which is girl of the duke of Chevreuse.
December 2nd:

Bossuet seat with the Faculty of theology (1st seven. - Oct. 2. - Nov. 4. - Dec. 2).
Miss is with Nanteuil.

December 4th: Sixteenth written letter with provincial a of Pascal.
December 9th: Died of Girolima Mancini, sister of the cardinal Mazarin.
December 23rd: Prohibition to publish without name of author nor privilege.
December 28th: Died of the painter Laurent of Hyre.

Beginning of connection between Louis XIV and Marie Mancini, niece of the cardinal .
Treated marc of gold (tax on the offices) sold in the form of a treaty with financial for 2 million books (annual income discounted 144 000 pounds). That is to say an output discounted a little higher than 7%.

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