1664 in France

This page relates to the year 1664 of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Chronology of France

1663 in France - 1664 - 1665 in France

January

Wednesday January 2nd: Colbert is named Surintendant of the buildings.
January 14th:

Died of Francoise de France, duchess of Savoy, daughter-in-law of Mrs Royale, half-sister of Miss.

January 17th:

Bossuet pronounces the Panegyric of Saint Sulpice, with Saint-Sulpice in front of the Queen-Mother.
the woman of Fouquet gives to Olivier d' Ormesson a request requiring to challenge Séguier.

January 19th: Louis XIV is godfather of the son of Molière.
Chamillart, Foucault and of Ormesson visits Fouquet with the Bastille.
January 29th: Representation of the Forced marriage for the first time at the Palate of Louvre in front of the King.

February

Tuesday February 12th: Treaty of Pisa enters France and the the Holy See. End of the conflict started in August 1662. Louis XIV replaced Créqui by Mgr of Bourlemont, listener of the rote.

Articles of Pisa. Louis XIV will return Avignon and the Comtat, but of the excuses will be made by a papal legate and a commemorative pyramid will be built in Rome.

February 16th: The historical MUSE tells that Madam de Sévigné danced at the court the ballet of the Loves disguised .
February 19th: It is discovered that some and rather many parts showing Fouquet were falsified.
February 22nd: A royal decision confirms the payment of the pension of 6 000 pounds on the archbishop's palace of Auch.

March

Sunday March 16th: Marriage of Julie of Holy-Moor with Emmanuel, count de Crussol, duke of Uzès.

April

Tuesday the 1st er April: The named archbishop of Paris, Hardouin de Péréfixe, receives his bubbles.
April 13rd: Easter
April 17th: Marriage of Anne of Rohan-Chub, with François de Rohan, prince of Soubise. She died the February 4th 1709.
April 17th: Argenson: “One spoke strong this day about April 1664 to work to get the removal of the malicious comedy of Tartuffe . Each one was given the responsability to speak about it with his/her friends who swage some credit at the Court to prevent his représentafion, and indeed it was differed long enough, but finally the bad spirit of the world triumphed over all the care and all the resistance of the solid piety in favor of the author libertine (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, said Molière, born in Paris in 1622, died in 1673.) of this part, which undoubtedly was punished of all its impiétés by a very unhappy end. Because by representing the Hypochondriac, it died suddenly on the theater almost with the sight of all the spectators, without spiritual helps nor temporal. ” “one solved to make exhort a person of capacity nothing to write against the comedy of Tartuffe, and one says that it valoit to forget best than to attack it fear of urging the author to defend it. ”
April 19th: Hardouin de Péréfixe takes possession of its seat. Retz request and obtains the authorization to come to Paris.
April 23rd: Chigi receives from the consistory the cross of legate to present to Louis XIV the excuses of the pope in the Créqui business.

May

Monday May 5th: The galère captain of Chigi installs of Civitavecchia.
7 - May 13rd: With Versailles, festivals of the pleasures of the magic Island , series of entertainments reserved for the court, fruit of the collaboration of Lully, Molière, Benserade, Vigarani. One represents there the Princess of Elides . Madam de Sévigné assists to with it with his/her daughter.
May 12th: Representation of the first Sanctimonious hypocrite or Impostor (in three acts)
May 14th: Bossuet is godfather of a girl of Michel Dubois, coachman of the Queen-Mother, with Saint-Germain-the Auxerrois.
May 17th: Refunding forced of the revenues of the Town hall on the basis of depreciated course.
May 19th: Died of Mrs. de Nemours (Elisabeth de Vendôme, widow of Charles Amédée of Savoy-Nemours), whose girl was duchess of Savoy, the other queen of Portugal.
May 28th: Bearing edict establishment of the Company of the Western Indies.
May 30th: Miss is with Have, in spite of the authorization to be allocated to the court (business of the marriage with the king of Portugal)

Bussy learns, without being able about it to doubt, that its manuscript is spread. It is put in anger against Mrs. of the Balsam, which is avenged, claimed he, by including spites in its manuscript and while adding to it of the continuations. The noise of the existence of the satirical history of Bussy came to the King, who complains with Fontainebleau, from his mockeries towards the courtiers and fears that it did not also tear his family, in particular the queen-mother and Madam, his sister-in-law.

June

Sunday the 1st er June: Pentecost.
June 2nd: Died, with 4:00 of the morning, of Henri, duke of Own way, but initially intended for the Church. Grandson of the Gash and wire of Charles. It is him which will make the forwardings of Naples by claiming the heritage of the duke of Anjou. Olivier d' Ormesson: " Mr. de Guise died, having begun his fiftieth year, extremely regretted of any Paris, being extremely honest and civil, being the only one which lived as a prince and made expenditure in horses and continuation, having thirty-six pages extremely well raised and better than to the Academy, twelve Mores, and his house being the retirement of everyone. "
June 6th: Retz comes to present its regards to Louis XIV which remains with Fontainebleau. From there, it goes to Paris which it did not see since December 1652 It is visited there by a crowd of friends and the curious one. It also goes to the Abbaye of Saint-Denis and resides one moment at Pierrefitte. But the king obliges it to regain Commercy at the end of a few days.
June 8th: Trinity.
June 9th: Miss leaves Have for Paris (Palais of Luxembourg). It stops with Saint-Denis, because the duchess of Alençon her sister caught the Petite pox.
June 12th:

Festival God. Departure of Miss of Saint-Denis, it forgave with the countess of Fiesque. She dines with Paris and sleep in Petit-Bourg.
Rivalité enters the two parishes of the Luxembourg for the procession of the festival God (Memories of Miss p 491)

June 13rd: Miss share for Fontainebleau and accommodated there by all that counts except Turenne which is always badly because of being mixed with the marriage of Portugal.
June 14th: Miss follows the queen to the mass as to her practice, as if nothing had occurred.
June 16th: Hanging with the Bastille of Dumont, a modest co-defendant of Fouquet, receiver of the sizes of Crépy. He is condemned to died and hung at once (with 6:00 of the evening).
June 24th: Fouquet, always kept by D' Artagnan and its musketeers, leaves the Bastille for Fontainebleau, the lawsuit follows the court. Procession of five fit with body with Jeannin de Castille, Guénégaud, Bazinière, Delorme. At midday stage in Plessis, the prisoners dine with separate tables. The evening, the prisoners are in the tower of Moret, with orée of the forest.
June 25th: Disgrace of the duke and the duchess of Navailles. In connection with incidents between Mrs. de Navailles and the king. She appears to have prevented it from seeing Miss of Vallière. The queen mother and the queen are very annoyed by it.
June 26th: Rancid between with the Trap door.
June 27th: The noise runs that will be published in Holland of has nnales in love with France, blaming royal of the family members. Reassured by Saint-Aignan, the King trusts Bussy and makes him ask its Maximes of love . He wants to read them one-to-one with Miss of Vallière.

July

Tuesday the 1st er July:

Brown the becomes First painter of the King.
Compromise by the king of the queen mother and Mrs. de Brancas (the first had reproached Mrs. de Brancas (and Mrs. de Navailles) for having been with the walk with Miss of Vallière.

July 3rd: The legate arrives at Fontainebleau surrounded by honors. Lionne gives him the approval of the king on new the nuncio, Carlo Roberti. He is cardinal in petto , i.e. not declared.
July 6th: The woman of Fouquet follows and settles in Montigny, close to Fontainebleau.
July 14th: Rancé goes to the Trap door of which he is abbot.
July 16th:

Died of the poet Andreas Gryphius.
Birth of a son of Madam (Henriette of England), Philippe-Charles of Orleans, duke of Valois, dead the December 8th 1666.

July 18th: With Versailles, Great royal Entertainment , spectacle accessible to all. 3.000 people assist to with it.
July 27th: D' Ormesson crosses of Artagnan in the court of the castle of Fontainebleau. Proud attitude of Artagnan.
July 28th: Chigi arrived the day before. Bernardo Pasquini accompanies it in Paris in 1664 the continuation by the cardinal Flavio Chigi and plays of the harpsichord in front of Louis XIV. It is for him the occasion to hear and of côtoyer the French musicians.
July 29th: Public excuses of the pope for the business of the August 20th 1662. Solemn excuses (Blet p 31).
July 31st: Drive out of Chigi with the king.

August

Friday: 6.000 French, whom order the count de Coligny, are distinguished at the sides from the imperial army during the battles delivered on Raab, close to the monastery of Saint-Gotthard, brilliant Christian victory over the Turks.
August 3rd: First meeting of the transitory royal Council of the Trade.
August 9th: Solemn entry and carefully regulated Chigi in Paris.
August 12th: Chigi sets out again for Rome. Montausier accompanies it until Dijon.
August 14th:

the king returns to Paris.
the defendants follow the king. With Charenton, D' Artagnan lets Fouquet tighten his wife and her children in its arms.

August 15th: Madam de Sévigné and her daughter with Tancourt and Commercy in Burgundy.
August 21st - August 26th: Dramatic visits, with Port-Royal, of the new archbishop of Paris, Mgr of Péréfixe. Twelve nuns are transferred in other houses. The community is private sacraments, placed under the monitoring of six Visitandines. The obstinacy of the majority of the moniales constitutes a serious defeat for the archbishop of Paris.
August 23rd: Roberti, new the nuncio makes her solemn entry in Paris.
August 27th: Bearing edict establishment of the Company of the Eastern Indies.
August 28th: Charles of Rochefoucauld, knight of Malta, wire of our author, is wounded with Djidjelli (Algeria), at the time of the unloading of the duke of Beaufort Gazette of August 28th.
August 30th:

Pussort and Voysin, two of the judges of Fouquet, are obliged to be explained on the falsifications of the documents noted by the court.
the Nonce blesses the langes Dauphin with Vincennes.

Creation of the tapestry workshops of Beauvais.

September

Monday the 1st er September: D' Ormesson returns its conclusions: the statement of the Saving are forgeries.
September 2nd: The Nuncio, Roberti, is introduced near Lionne and Tellier. Roberti also meets Henri de Maupas, bishop of Évreux which goes back to Rome to assist with the canonization of François Dirty.
September 8th: Fouquet completed to prepare its defense.
September 9th: Roberti, the Nonce receives sumptuous gifts of welcome which he hesitates to accept.
September 10th: Bossuet is elected senior of the chapter of Metz.
September 18th: Protective French customs tariff.
September 30th: The king enters the negotiations with Roberti the Nonce.

At the end of September: Bossuet discusses with the nuns Port-Royal to the Visitation the Saint-Jacob suburb.
September 1664 - April 1666: rancid mission of in Rome.

October

Sunday October 12th: Return of Burgundy in Paris of Madam de Sévigné and his/her daughter.
October 27th: Completed to print Reflections or sentences and maxims morals , in Paris, at Barbin. There were several pullings of them, with light alternatives (317 maxims) of Rochefoucauld. One will count of them six editions of 1665 to 1678.
October 28th: Roberti tackles the question of the nominations of the bishops. An example comes, Fabri is irreproachable as bishop, but for Rome, not with Orange in territory heretic where is needed an erudite and combative prelate.

November

Friday November 14th: First appearance of Fouquet in front of its judges. It is led Bastille to the Arsenal in sedan-chair.
November 16th: Childbirth of the queen, a girl who did not see.
November 17th: Second audience of the lawsuit Fouquet.
November 18th: One manages the Viatique with the queen.
November 18th: 3rd meeting of the lawsuit Fouquet.
November 19th: The mother of Fouquet applies to the queen Marie-Therese a plaster which makes wonder and cures it at once.
November 20th: 9:00 of the morning. Goes down for hearing of Fouquet in front of its court.
November 21st: Fouquet is shown of more assured in front of its judges. Too much?
November 25th: Died from François-Theodore de Nesmond of a érisipèle, it is received President with mortar with the Parlement of Paris.
November 30th: Colbert joins together in secret committee Chamillart, Hotman, Berryer, Foucault and the lawyers Langlois and Gomont. It is a question of accelerating the lawsuit of Fouquet. The goal is to finish some before Christmas.

At the end of November, the the Vatican worries about the rumors which claim that the four bishops would not have signed the Formulaire sincerely and would act contrary to their engagements.

December

Tuesday 2 and Wednesday December 3rd: Fouquet speaks much.
December 3rd:

the lawsuit of Fouquet relates to its personal expenditure.
Vialart bishop of Trawl-nets attests that the four bishops signed the Formulaire sincerely.

December 4th: Last meeting of interrogation of Fouquet. One approaches the Crime of lese-majesty, the plan of Saint-Mandé. Shown crime of State, it defines the crime of State and this crime is that made by Séguier and its son during the Fronde.
December 5th: D' Artagnan finds serene Fouquet in waiting of its judgment.
December 7th: Berryer becomes insane to bind.
December 10th: Completed to print New in worms drawn from Boccace and Arioste , by Mr. of L.F. (Jean of the Fountain). Publication continued in 1665 ( Tales ) and in 1666. Large success.
December 10th: From the 10 (Tuesday according to Petitfils) to the 12, Ormesson recapitulates the lawsuit Fouquet in front of the judges.
Mid-December: Miss which raises of an influenza with Have returns to Paris because of the childbirth of the queen. She then learns from the queen mother her cancer. She speaks about it peacefully.
December 12th: The duke of Mazarin will see Louis XIV and says to him that misfortunes which overpower the family (disease of the queen, its daughter, etc) come from the bad conduct of the king. The king treats Mazarin of insane and is annoyed.
December 13rd: Ormesson pronounces its indictment. He concludes with bânissement perpetual and the confiscation from the goods.
December 15th: The other rapporteur of the lawsuit Fouquet, Cormier de Sainte-Hélène speaks the 15 and 16. He asks death by decapitation.
December 16th: Pussort, uncle of Colbert takes the changing. He proposes decapitation.
December 17th: Arrive at Rome a dispatch of the Nonce with not only the certificate of the bishop of Trawl-nets on the sincerity of the four bishops but also those of Lionne and of the archbishop of Rouen.
December 18th: The advisers Cuissotte de Gizaucourt, Ferriol, Noguès and Ayrault opinent in their turn. Little by little, the tendency to a certain indulgence takes shape. Séguier spoke in the last and required death.
December 20th: Judgment of Fouquet to the perpetual banishment. Pains commuted by the king to perpetual prison.
December 20th: Departure from Saint-March to Pignerol to precede Fouquet there.
December 21st: Roberti, the Nonce receives the brief of the pope authorizing France to name the bishops of Metz, Toul and Verdun. Authorization refused since Henri IV.
December 22nd: All the close relations of Fouquet are exiled, assigned with residence, etc
December 24th: Christmas Eve, Miss sees passing a Comet while returning from the mass to the Carmelite friars. The queen mother sleeps with the Valley-of-Grace.
December 24th: Rigorous instructions of Tellier on the detention conditions of Fouquet.
December 26th: Died of the little girl of the queen, born hardly more than one month earlier.

the cardinal Albizzi shows Bergellini, the nuncio, to be made deceive by the French.
Vardes is embastillé to have badly spoken Madam.

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