Rainy summer of 1725 in France

One announces to Hercé in Mayenne: " In the year the 1725 rain began on April 14th and continued until the 8th day of July inclusively. Since the 9 until the 20 the weather was nice, then the rain started again the 21 and continued until to the five of September that time was put at beautiful what gave average to dry the villages which started to be spoiled. The rain started again on September 15th. "

The rain involved the dearness of the Grain: One announces to Poulay that " The year 1725 the rain started about April eight and lasted nearly ten months the villages of these cantons icy were gastés so much that dearness went so high that the corn esté sold mesme of Lassay up to 22 l.t and the Carabin 16 l.t the wines valoint nothing as well as the fruit poverty was so large in this country here that there has been more than 100 years that one it avoit veu parreille and cependent one saw of patient here for thirteen months only poverty lasts the July 4th 1726. "

Religious reaction

At the time of the rainy summer of 1725 in France, the Mounting S of Holy Genevieve and Sainte Scholastic were " gone down " furnace bridges of the churches where they were (with Paris (by order of the Parliament) and with the Mans (by order of the bishop) to accompany by the processions. The bishop made two mandements to order public Prière S, by the first it ordered a procession and the collections AD postulandam serenitatem , by the second it orders to expose to the Messe and with the Vêpre S the Blessed Sacrament three Sundays or consecutive festivals and to sing with the speech R. Domine not secundum with the psalm Miserere and during August, July and September to give the Bénédiction with the Saint Ciboire at the conclusion of vespers. The Abbot Angot, in his Dictionary, indicates that with Louverné the rainy summer of 1725 encouraged the parishioners to go Sunday after the Saint-Pierre in procession to Avénières, naked heads, by a beating rain, to require the suspension of the plague.

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