1660 in France

Chronology of France

1659 in France - 1660 - 1661 in France

January

  • Saturday January 3rd: Fouquet is with Saint-Mandé. Colbert visits it the 3 or the 4.
  • January 5th: Arrived of the court which comes from Toulouse to Montpellier. It sets out again about it the 8.
  • January 8th: Departure of the court of Montpellier for Nimes. It arrives there on January 9th.
  • January 9th: Arrival of the court in Nimes. Mazarin is there.
  • January 12th: Arrived from Miss at Avignon, it deviated from the court. It is accommodated very officially with its liking by the vice-legate of the pope, large catch. It is placed in the marquis of Grillon.
  • January 13rd: Miss will see the Palais of the Popes, visit the synagog and attends a ball given at the marchioness of Châteauneuf.
  • January 14th: Departure of Avignon. Initially mass in Célestins. Miss which fears water, embarks for Arles. Travel fast in the middle of the ice floes. It finds it finally too short.
  • January 17th: Arrival of the court with Aix-en-Provence. It remains there until February 4th. Cosnac joined the court. Mazarin makes him a pretense quarrels. Mazarin wants to take it along to Saint-Jean-with-Luz.
  • January 20th: Occupation of Marseilles by the royal troops.
  • January 25th: Arrival of Miss de Longueville for the arrival of Mr. the Prince.
  • January 26th: Harms the 26- January 27th, Gaston, which has just received with Blois the " mazarinettes" , falls ill of the evil which will carry it.
  • January 27th: Arrived of Cop at Aix-en-Provence where is the court. Cop sees the queen one-to-one, to the great displeasure of Miss which has prohibition to see it. Miss complains with the cardinal.
  • January 28th: Miss writes in Condé to excuse itself. Cop answers him that it must initially see Mister (Philippe).
  • January 29th: Miss sees finally Condé.
  • January 30th: Gaston is better, the Guenot doctor from Paris manages an emetic to him and 8 times bleed it.

February

  • Monday February 2nd:

    • has Blois, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, died of Gaston of Orleans. He dies chrétiennement and pronounces the In manus killed, Domine… Guy Shoe, speaking about this event, is expressed as follows: “ It died the seventh day of a continuous fever, with a fluxion on the chest and four catches of emetic wine, whose Guenaut ordered the three last, saying that it étoit the true means it of curing, sic moriuntur principles, sic itur AD will astra, for lack of a good doctor who knows the sacret of Galien.
  • February 2nd: One sings a Te Deum for peace in the cathedral Saint-Saver.
  • February 3rd: Ball before leaving Aix. Dialogs enjoués between Louis XIV, Cop and Miss on the events of the Sling.
  • February 4th: Departure of the court of Aix-en-Provence, it moves towards the Holy-Balsam. The court arrives at Toulon the 7.
  • February 7th: Arrived at Toulon of the court which comes from Aix.
  • February 11th: In Marseilles, first stone of the Saint Nicolas's Day citadel poses.
  • February 13rd: Funerary ceremony with Blois for Gaston in the church of the Jesuits.
  • February 14th: Arrival of the cardinal in Toulon. Its drop delayed its departure of Aix.
  • Mid-February: Died of Jean de Choisy, father of Timoléon.
  • February 15th - April 4th: Bossuet sermon the Lent with Tiny of the Royal Place ( sermon on the demons, the tender due to the word of God, on the relapses, our provisions with regard to the needs of the life, on the vain excuses of the sinners, the honor of the world, Passion, the holy innovation of life, peace ).
  • February 15th: Fatty Sunday, Miss goes to the mass to the Oratoire and the evening to the sermon, with Mr. prince and the princess of Conti. The return of a messenger (Hut) whom it had sent to Mister makes him guess the death of his/her father.
  • February 20th: At the dawn arrived of the skin of Gaston at Saint-Denis.
  • February 21st: Jean de Choisy, father of Timoléon, is buried with Saint-Nicolas-of-Fields.
  • February 23rd: Return of the court in Aix, after its stay in Toulon.

  • the genealogist of the king, Pierre d' Hozier advises with Fouquet not to call upon a noble origin, your house " does not need this false state I advise you to make of it neither put nor receipt ".

  • With the autumn, Retz goes to Hamburg and request to the Christine queen of Sweden to intercede in its favor.
  • Arrêt of the council cuts off a third of the incomes from the fields, wood, parisis, grantings, assistances, farms and rights alienated.
  • Fouquet buys with a French trader Amsterdam named Grippon four very fast men-of-war for Beautiful-Isle.
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