1659 in France

This page relates to the year 1659 of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Chronology of France

1658 in France - 1659 - 1660 in France

January

Thursday January 9th: Letter of A. Dettonville, pseudonym of Pascal, with Mr. Huyghens de Zulichem.
January 13rd: Departure of the court of Lyon.
January 14th: Died of the duke of Nemours, husband of Marie of Orleans-Longueville, duchess of Nemours.
Mid-January: Miss share to make a stay from 7 to 8 days, by giving up the convoy of the court.
January 20th: Addition following the history of the caster .
January 25th: Rochefoucauld gives its Portrait by itself in the second edition of the collective collection published by Miss of Montpensier under the title of Recueil of the portraits and praises in worms and prose . Completed to print is of January 25th, 1659. It is the first work of Rochefoucauld; it meets with Madam of Fayette, which gives, in the same collection, a portrait of Madam de Sévigné.
January 27th: Richard Cromwell proclaimed Lord Protector.

at the beginning of 1659: Cosnac turns over to its évêché of Valence.
Letter of good-bye of saint Vincent of Paul with Retz.
At the end of January or at the beginning of February: Letter of Pascal in Carcavy, on a proposal of Huyghens.

February

Thursday February 6th: Return of the court to Paris.
February 8th: Seventh writing of the priests of Paris .
February 9th: Day of the Kings. Mazarin expels the duchess of Nemours and the princess of Carignan of the hotel of Soissons (in the place of current the Produce exchange in Paris) and they have order of " to make prompt retirement " with Pontoise. The two princesses disobey and go to Creil. Mazarin wants to thus give the provision of all the hotel to his/her niece, Olympe Mancini, countess of Soissons, which had only half of it.
February 11th: Died of Guillaume Colletet, poet.
February 14th: Riot with Aix-en-Provence directed against the first president of the Parliament, Henri de Forbin-Maynier, baron d' Oppède.
February 16th: Died of Abel Servien.
February 17th: 17 and 18, long late secret meetings between Colbert and Hervart in order to make name a successor with Servien which is not Fouquet.
February 19th: Mazarin convenes Hervart and Fouquet to announce that it is him, Mazarin to them, which will take the function of Servien. Fouquet makes understand with Mazarin that by taking the function it will have to be guarantee of engagements of the State. Mazarin grommelle " One made me take a malicious step here! "
February 20th: Mazarin takes Fouquet with share and announces to him that he will be only superintendent.

Pascal, seriously patient, gives up any scientific work.
Edition in-8° Provincial , with the moral Theology of the Jesuits and new casuists .

March

Sunday March 2nd: The duke of Mercœur, governor of the Provence, makes occupy Aix by his troops.
March 9th: Don Juan of Austria comes to Paris. He is the natural son of Philippe IV, king d' Espagne, and of Marie Calderona, actress.
March 19th: Bossuet pronounces the Panégyrique of saint Joseph , in Paris, with the Carmélites.

April

Tuesday the 1st er April: The king d' Espagne share of Madrid for Fontarabie in order to negotiate the Treated of the Pyrenees.
3 - April 12th: Bossuet sermon, with Saint-Lazare, the preparatory retirement with the ordination of Easter, on moral theology.
April 9th: Quarrel Fouquet - Marcillac which misses degenerating into Biscara/Marcillac duel and which is finished with the Bastille.
April 11th: Bussy-Rabutin arrives to the duke of Vivonne to take part in the vice of Roissy. Drafting of the parodic alleluias . Probable drafting of the whole of the account concerning this adventure.
April 13rd: Easter.

Régnault of the Moors, governor of Concarneau is dislocated by Basile Fouquet.

May

Wednesday May 7th: Franco-Spanish suspension of fighting.
May 8th: This suspension of fighting is a prelude to the peace, which is concluded between France and Spain. Retz leaves then the Holland for Brussels, in order to act in concert with Condé. Each one on its side, the prince and the cardinal try to be reconciled with Mazarin, while being intended to reverse the minister after peace.
May 10th: Representation by Molière of Thoughtless the with the Louvre. It again plays there on October 21st Invaluable ridiculous the .
May 15th: The duke of Orleans arrives at Paris.
May 18th: Celebrates given by Lionne to Berny, with two miles of Paris, where is the king and the envoy of Spain, Pimentel (Gift Antonio Pimentelli). Miss discusses much with him.
May 25th:

Abdication of Richard Cromwell.
Bossuet gives the Panégyrique of Thomas saint of Villeneuve , in Paris, with the Small-Augustins .

Gaston of Orleans is consulted with Chambord by Mazarin on the marriage of Louis XIV with the infante of Spain.

June

June: Mazarin wants to go to Vaux, Fouquet dissuades some.

Wednesday June 4th: Preliminaries of peace enters France and Spain.
June 11th: Died of Philippe II of Coulanges, uncle and tutor of Madam de Sévigné.
June 21st: Good-byes of Louis XIV with Marie Mancini.
June 25th: The cardinal Mazarin share as of on June 25th to go to Saint-Jean-with-Luz. The court leaves Fontainebleau only on July 28th; it goes initially to Bordeaux, where it arrives on August 19th.
June 26th: Mazarin stops with Vaux. It remains the day and the night.
June 27th: Return of Mazarin to Fontainebleau which describes with the king what it saw.
June 30th: Morning: very long walk with horse of Mazarin and Gaston of Orleans in the forest of Chambord.

July

Wednesday July 2nd: The cardinal is with Amboise, it writes with Fouquet to require of him 200.000 books for Madam. It was the day before with Blois.
July 10th: Bussy-Rabutin receives king the order to be withdrawn in its grounds after the business of Roissy. 16 months of exile stopped by clandestine visits in Paris.
July 11th: Rochefoucauld, returned in favor, receives king a pension of 8.000 books.
July 17th: The king will visit Vaux, and Fouquet offers a country collation.
July 18th: Birth of Hyacinthe Stone.
July 22nd: Hervart writes with Mazarin to denounce the financial intrigues of Fouquet. It engages a plot against the superintendent warped by him, Talon and Colbert.
July 28th: The court leaves Fontainebleau only on July 28th; it goes initially to Bordeaux, where it arrives on August 19th. It will not return from this tour where one signs the Traité of the Pyrenees and where one Marie Louis XIV only the July 13rd 1660, more than one year afterwards.
July 31st: Ball given by Gaston of Orleans to Chambord, the Grande Miss assists to with it. Ironic account of this one.

August

Friday: At 4 o'clock in the morning, Gaston of Orleans will see its girl in her room and speaks to him. Last conversation.
August 13rd - November 12th: Twenty-five conferences, on the island of the Pheasants, between plenipotentiary French and Spanish.
August 19th: Arrival of the court with Bordeaux. It remains there until October 5th.

Second stay of Pascal to Port-Royal.

September

Friday September 12th: Mazarin receives an anonymous letter which suggests to him including/understanding Retz in the peace treaty. Retz is undoubtedly the author.
September 12th: Bossuet is known as residing at the Deanery of Saint-Thomas-of-Louvre.
September 28th: Fouquet, accompanied by Gourville and at the request of Mazarin, will join the court with Bordeaux. It is a question of determining which free gift will be claimed in October in the States of Languedoc.

Mazarin gives up repurchasing Belle-Ile in Fouquet.
Mariage with Be worth of Charles Louis de Simiane de Claret with Madeleine Hay de Couëllans, Fouquet. Y assists Jacques Coste his companion at the time of the riot of Valence become President of the Parliament of Dauphine.

October

Thursday October 2nd: Sending of a letter of Colbert to Mazarin, Saint-Jean-with-Luz, with this letter of modesty pretended and of crawling obsequiosity: “ Your Eminence will herewith find a report which is escaped for me hands, though I know well that it contains only shades of a knowledge whose Your Eminence has all the lights. If there is something which it does not like, I beg it to throw it to fire as of the first page. Furthermore, Your Eminence will see how much it is important that it remains secret… ”
October 6th: Departure of the court of Bordeaux for Toulouse where it arrives the 14.
October 14th: Arrival of the court with Toulouse. It remains there until December 27th.
October 16th: With Marseilles, an order of the king is torn in full town hall. Insolence without precedent in a very disobedient city however.
October 16th: Fouquet arrives at Saint-Jean-with-Luz.
October 17th: Fouquet sees the cardinal .
October 18th: The following day mande with Colbert to be well with Fouquet.
October 20th: Fouquet sets out again of Saint-Jean-with-Luz. It joined the court with Bordeaux which it follows to Toulouse to ask the states a free gift of 2 million, 1 million at the cities and 150 000 pounds for the maintenance of the places of the Roussillon.

November

Saturday the 1st er November:

Bossuet sermon on the eminent dignity of the Poor , with the Girls of Providence, Paris (About Nov. 1).
Died of Nicolas Brulart, lord of Boulay, which had been chamberlain of Gaston of Orleans and captain of the Luxembourg.

November 7th: Signature of the Peace of the Pyrenees and the marriage contract of Louis XIV and Marie-Therese.
November 7th: Prince of the blood, supported by the king of Spain, Condé returns in grace. Not Retz, that nobody supports any more, whose birth is not famous enough and which the hatred of Mazarin continues. It must thus turn over in Holland.
November 10th: With Loudun, opening of the 29e and - for modern times - the last Synod of the reformed Churches of France.
10 or November 13rd: Marriage of François VII of Rochefoucauld, then prince de Marcillac, wire of the memorialist, with his cousin, Jeanne-Charlotte of Plessis-Liancourt, which restores the house of Rochefoucauld.
November 18th: Molière gives the first representation of the ridiculous Précieuses to the Théâtre of the Petit-Bourbon.
November 23rd: Mazarin arrives at Toulouse. Fouquet finished its business with the states chaired by his/her brother, François, the archbishop of Narbonne. It obtained 2,5 Million more.
November 28th: Privilege to make and sell Chocolate granted by the king to the first manservant of the count of Soissons, David Chaillou, beginning of the mode of this drink.
November 29th: The duke François and the prince Charles, his son, arrive at Blois coming from Paris.
November 30th: Arrival of mylord Germain to inform Its known as Altesse, that the king of Great Britain devoit pareillement to arrive there today incognito; what she had not as soon as learned that She sent the count to him de Bury, who brought it in the Raré marquis, where he was received by Monseigneur the duke of Orleans, which treated it there très-magnifiquement with supper. ”

Nomination of Adrien Duel of Vaudroques as governor of the Antilles. He replaces his brother, Jacques, deceased.

December

Monday December 15th: Firm letter of Miss to Mrs Royale, the duchess of Savoy, asking him to provide the proof that she (Miss) wrote to discourage the marriage of the crown prince with her younger sister or to give denial of it. Letter approved by Mazarin.
December 27th: Departure of the court of Toulouse for Montpellier where it arrives on January 5th, 1660.
December 29th: Fouquet buys the Château of Largoët and the park (5 kilometers of circumference) of Elven.

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