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Chronology of France

1660 in France - 1661 - 1662 in France

January

Tuesday January 4th: Fouquet buys the baronnie of Kaër.
January 15th: Great masked ball given by Fouquet in its hotel of Emery at the time of the carnival.
January 18th: D' Aligre, future chancellor, comes to claim his 4 million books to the Assemblée of the clergy.
January 20th: Molière, from now on, has its clean theater in the Palais Royal.
January 24th: At the exit of the Council, Basile Fouquet challenges his brother. Dispute enters the two brothers.

February

Tuesday: The Assemblée of the clergy decides a new offensive on the Form.
February 6th: Set fire to small gallery of the Louvre during the preparation of a ballet. It is what makes flee Mazarin which sees there in more one predicts.
February 8th: Mazarin is made transport to Vincennes where is the court.
February 13rd: Miss: " All the winter occurred in festivals and pleasures. The king in a ballet: fire took in Louvre. Mr. cardinal avoit the drop; he had great fear. He was made carry in Vincennes, and is not revenu."
February 24th:

Louvois authorized to exert the load of Secretary of State, in the absence of his/her father.
Birth of the painter Alexandre-François Desportes.

February 28th: Treaty of Vincennes. Charles III of Lorraine recovers its duchies, but yields some territories, as well as a way of one half-league ensuring the connection Metz - Phalsbourg.

March

Tuesday the 1st er March: Marriage of Hortense to the son of the marshal of Meilleraye, " with it avoit given much good, to carry its name and its weapons, and it is called the duke of Mazarin." (Miss)
March 3rd:

Royal decree ordering the arrest of Retz.
Mazarin receives the Viatique.

3 - March 7th: with 9:00 of the morning, will of Mazarin, foundation of the College of the Four-Nations for the education of sixty noble young people of the recently annexed provinces (Alsace, Pignerol, Artois, Roussillon). Vau will build what is today the Institut of France.
March 5th: One makes recite for Mazarin in all the churches of Paris (a privilege reserved to the people of royal blood) the Forty Hour old prayers.
March 6th: Louis XIV gives up the universal legacy of the goods of Mazarin. Mazarin dictates its final will. 5 executors: Lamoignon, Tellier, Ondedei, Fouquet, Colbert.
March 6th - April 7th: Bossuet sermon the Lent with the Large Carmelite nuns in Paris ( on penitence, the word of God, the danger of the relapses, the ambition, the hatred of the truth, the sufferings, Passion, the man, temple of God ).
March 6th: Claude Jolly, cleaned Saint-Nicolas-of-Fields is called in full sermon to assist Mazarin with Vincennes.
March 7th: Mazarin has light better, but receives extreme oiling. It speaks in praise of the ministers who came to hold the council in his room.
March 8th: Colbert is named Intendant of finances.
March 9th:

Mazarin would have warned Louis XIV against Fouquet.
Around two hours of the morning, died of Mazarin. Choisy tells that Mazarin would have said: " I owe you all, Lord, but I believe to discharge in some manner by giving you Colbert."
Louis XIV holds at once council with Lionne and Tellier, then Fouquet which arrives late.
Retz learns it in England where it is turned over to the beginning of the year, in the intention helping the king Charles II to obtain the cardinal's hat for his favorite of Aubigny. Full with hope, it immediately leaves for the Spanish Netherlands.
Mazarin dies after having made say to Mrs. de Choisy who he remembered her in his will; the news appears false.

March 10th: The Council with 7:00 the morning, Louis XIV announces with Vincennes that it will control by itself.
March 11th: Arrived at Valencian, Retz learns unfortunately that a royal decree, dated from the March 3rd, orders to stop it as soon as it appears in France. It turns over to Brussels. It is that, according to the expression of Lionne, Louis XIV “sucked with milk a strong aversion against its person”.
March 13rd: The Jésuites which obtain the removal of the small schools of Port-Royal create in 1637.
March 15th: Mazarin has faithful, Guy de Bar, brigadier (on January 28th, 1649). It was charged to lead the princes of Marcoussis to the Havre. It is made general lieutenant on July 10th, 1652 and he is governor of Amiens, on March 15th, 1661
March 18th: The young sister of Miss, Marguerite-Louise of Orleans, request with Miss to intercede near the queen so that it accompanies this one with the dinner with the Carmelite nuns by the large convent.
March 19th: Saint-Joseph.

Bossuet pronounces the Panegyric of Joseph saint in front of Anne of Austria.
incoherent Marguerite-Louise during this day with the queen (p 461, Memories Miss) It wants to require of the queen to break her project of marriage with the son of the duke of Tuscany.

March 20th: Marguerite-Louise subjects herself the following day. She excuses herself, the king declares herself content. Its word was committed. One had asked for the agreement of the young princess besides on the marriage.
March 30th: Mister communie with Auxerre-native Saint-Germain-the, it is Cosnac which gives him the communion. The evening signature of the marriage contract and engagement to the Palate-Cardinal.
March 31st: Marriage of Mister and Henriette of England to the vault of the apartment of Henriette of England.

Creation of a royal Academy of dance.
the duchess of Nemours recovers the hotel of Soissons.

April

Spring: the fleet of Fouquet is complete. Two ships (the Saint-Sebastien and Fame) deliver to Martinique of many guns. The Small Anne leaves for Malaga with salted sardines…

Friday the 1st er April: Marriage of Mister and Henriette of England, sister of Charles II.
April 11th: Birth of the painter Antoine Coypel.
April 13rd: A stop of the Council of State confirms the will of the king to make sign the Formulaire. The general vicars of Paris, friends of Retz, recommend certainly to sign the Form and start again at the same time the distonction of the fact and the right. The pope authorizes the nuncio to judge the vicars. The Créqui business in Rome breaks the united action of the king and the pope against jansénisme. The bishop of Alet Nicolas Pavillon reacts by addressing a letter to the king by reproaching him " to put the hand at the censer ".
April 17th: Easter
April 19th: Marguerite-Louise of Orleans, girl of Mr Gaston, wife Cosme de Médicis, the large-duke of Tuscany. Miss: " It étoit Mr. the duke of Own way which avoit the procuration of Mr. the large duke. The following day, was the marriage; one married them in the vault of Louvre; Mr. de Béziers made the ceremony . "
April 20th - December 4th: The court is with Fontainebleau. Starting from July, connection of the king and Louise of Vallière.
April 20th: Died of César, marquis d' Aumont and governor of Touraine, nephew of the Marshal of France Jean VI of Aumont, said the Gallic Franc (1552-1595). Louis XIV refuses with Gilles Fouquet, last brother of Nicolas Fouquet, the survival of the government of Touraine which he entrusts to François Honorat de Beauvilliers, count de Saint-Aignan.
April 23rd:

Stop of the Council prescribing with all the ecclesiastics the signature of the Form antijansenist written in February by the Parliament of the clergy. The boarders and postulating them of Port-Royal are expelled.
the court leaves to Fontainebleau.

April 27th: Colbert makes inquire by Colbert de Terron, his/her cousin, into the work carried out by Fouquet with Belle-Île.
April 30th: Arrival of Henriette of England at the court of France.

May

Beginning May: Nicolas Fouquet joined the court with Fontainebleau.

Tuesday May 3rd: A French gentleman leaves for Rome. He is carrying a letter of the king asking the pope to take again the lawsuit of Retz. In the weeks which follow, in spite of all the demonstrations of hostility that Louis XIV spendthrift with Retz, Charles II of England utilizes various personalities in its favor: the queen Henriette of England, the bishop of Rodez Hardouin de Péréfixe, former tutor of the king, Bartet, right-hand man of Mazarin. Without success.
May 4th: Louis XIV makes the decision of the disgrace of Fouquet, but the secret guard.
May 7th: François de Nuchèze, protected from Fouquet, is made vice-admiral, " general intendant of the marine, the navigation and trade of France" for the West.
May 16th: Colbert de Terron sends a ship for espionner Belle-Île.
May 22nd: The ship of Colbert de Terron is of return of Belle-Île. The report/ratio which shows a very strong place decides the king to prevail against Fouquet, whereas he wanted only to disgrace it.

the project of marriage between Charles II of England and the princess of Bragance (Portugal) is stopped. It is an envoy of Fouquet, the Country house of the Cross which arranges alliance.

June

Wednesday June 8th: The general vicars of Retz, of Tales and Hodencq, mandement publish one by which they authorize the obligatory signature of the Formulaire condemning Jansénius, by reserving the distinction of the right and the fact. The Jansenists can thus agree to condemn the five accused proposals (right), while claiming that Jansénius is not the author (the fact). Blow, Retz becomes suspect of jansénisme, because the royal government allots to him the initiative of its vicar-generals. It must write to the pope to clear itself.
June 21st: Died of the painter Andrea Sacchi.
June 22nd: The nuns of Port-Royal agree to sign the form only with the help of one explanatory clause.
June 27th: The queen mother takes along Henriette of England a few days to Mennecy at the marshal of Villeroy, then with Dampierre, at the duchess of Chevreuse. It is a question of moving away it from the king.
June 29th: Bossuet makes the Panegyric of Pierre saint (?).
June 30th: With Fontainebleau, Basile Fouquet gives up free the survival of the load of prosecutor of its brother.

July

At the beginning of July:

the price of the wheat setier of best quality sold in Paris reaches 25 pounds. It was only 15 in July 1660.
Return of Henriette of England to the court.

Monday July 4th: Letter of Retz to the queen mother Anne of Austria. It gives its interests between the hands of the latter, and now speaks to resign if it is needed. It does not receive an answer. Then enter into the decisive negociations with the royal capacity. In the name of Retz, his/her friends Montrésor and Pénacors will probe the Secretary of State Tellier to know in which conditions proscribes it could reconcile itself with the king. Tellier answers by inviting Retz to do itself of the proposals.
July 6th: Louis XIV announces the convocation of the states of Brittany to Nantes for the August 15th.
July 11th: Bright festival of Be worth for the Court. One plays there the School of the husbands of Molière.
Mid-July: Louise of Vallière becomes the mistress of Louis XIV.
July 17th: Fouquet receives the Queen of England and the duchess of Nemours in Vaux. First of the School of the husbands . Molière the interpreter.
July 21st: The marquis de Créqui, obtains from Louis XIV the load of general captain of the galères. Commeil one is protected from Fouquet, it is a means for the king of deadening Fouquet.
July 22nd: The marquis de Créqui lends oath.
July 23rd: Choisy assists of spectator with the ballet of the Seasons danced to Fontainebleau.
July 25th:

Died of the marshal's wife d' Estrées who was Anne Habert, second woman of François Hannibal d' Estrées, Marshal of France.
Died of Bernard de Nogaret of Valette d' Épernon, general, husband of Madam d' Épernon, of which it avoit have children. It avoit married in 1634, it had soixante-onze years.

July 26th: Fouquet has a crisis paludism. Every three days, it undergoes accesses of fever.

Fouquet sends to two boats charged men, of vivres, ammunition to transform the borough of Holy-Luce in the south of the Martinique into fortress and bases commercial.
the duchess of Nemours is with Coulommiers, then in Vaux.

August

Saturday August 6th: Died of Angelica Arnauld.
August 10th: Fouquet makes record by the Parliament the letters patent giving the general lieutenancy of Brittany to the marquis of Meilleraie. It is its last act of prosecutor.
August 12th: Fouquet sells its load of prosecutor to Achille de Harlay.
August 16th: The king leaves for Nantes; via Fontainebleau and Be worth, after preaching.
August 17th: Fouquet receives the king with Be worth-the-Viscount. This festival is that which passes to be at the origin of the disgrace of Fouquet. At the end of the evening, the king turns over to Fontainebleau. The court left to 3:00 Fontainebleau arrives only at 6:00
August 20th: The states of Brittany require the revocation of the exclusive privilege granted Gargot (a creature of Fouquet) on fishing with the Morue with Newfoundland.
August 25th: The Council where Louis XIV proposes to remove the expenditure of the cash (secret expenditure). Fouquet would have said: " Am J E thus nothing any more? "
August 27th: Fouquet meets Brienne and appears conscious of the arrival of its disgrace.
August 28th:

Retz suggests the following transaction: there will remain archbishop in title, but will be withdrawn where one will order to him to go, a suffragan bishop managing the diocese in its place. Tellier, in answer, requires a pure and simple resignation.
Departure of Fouquet and Lioness. They embark with Orleans on a hut.

August 29th:

Died of Louis Couperin.
Departure of the king for Nantes with 9:00 of the morning. Fouquet is with horse with Condé, the duke of Enghien, Turenne, the duke of Saint-Aignan and others gentilhommes. He passes to Orleans and layer to Blois.

August 30th:

Fouquet goes from Blois to Angers.
the relics of Saint Gaudens, martyr killed by the Visigoths towards 475, take again their initial place with collegial of Saint-Gaudens (Haute-Garonne).

Vaudroques, governor of the Martinique; a stop of the council of the island prohibited to the men of Fouquet to strengthen, increase their property nor to engage six workmen more.

September

Thursday the 1st er September:

Arrived of the king at Nantes.
Louis XIV prepares with Colbert the arrest of Fouquet which must be sent to Angers.

September 2nd:

Fouquet always feverish attends the Council. With 3:00 of after dining, the king sends Lionne to get informed about the health of Fouquet. This one prevents it risks which it runs.
the king convenes Charles de Batz-Castelmore (of Artagnan). He is also feverish and presents bad condition in front of the king. The king defers the arrest of two or three days so that of Artagnan was restored.

September 3rd:

Report/ratio of Mr. de Châtillon, intendant of the fortifications, on the Castle of Angers to accommodate Fouquet.
the states of Brittany vote by acclamations a free gift of 3M of books.

September 4th: At midday, D' Artagnan, restored, is presented to the king. Fouquet is convened with the Council for the next morning before hunting.
September 5th:

the king hears the mass with the Carmelite friars, then Conseil until 11:00 Louis XIV appoints one moment Fouquet so that it only left.
One moment, D' Artagnan loses sight of the fact Fouquet.
D' Artagnan stops the chair of Fouquet. Fouquet is led in the house nearest, that of the Fourché canon, uncle of the first wife of Fouquet.
Belle-Ile, ordered by $the Hague Desnoyers, is subjected without resistance to Sézan, lieutenant of the guards, who, with the head of a strong troop, had order to take the fortified town by the force.
Such an example can only impress Retz.

September 7th: Fouquet arrives at Angers. It is sick, high fever.
September 12th: Suppression with the Council of the king of superintendence. The king returned to Fontainebleau.
September 13rd: Inventory of the furniture of Be worth by two advisers of State and two Masters of the requests.
September 15th: Creation of the the royal Council of finances. Until January 1671, Louis XIV control surface helped of the triad: Tellier, of Lioness and Colbert. The king signs the ordinances.
September 19th:

Died of the duke of Damville. François-Christophe of Levy, or Levis-Ventadour, had been initially designated under the name of Brion, or count de Brion; he was at that time first rider of Gaston of Orleans, with which he preserved close relations. He was created duke of Damville, or Amville, after the death of his maternal uncle, Henri II, duke of Montmorency. Mrs. de Ménneville, compromised like mistress of Fouquet, loses in more the hope of her establishment, it withdraws herself in a convent.
Lauzon and of the Pit, advisers of State and Pierre Poncet, Master of the requests, begin the seizure of the parts with Saint-Mandé. Interrogation of the servants, etc

September 20th: The searchings extend to the secret drawers. Colbert is present.
September 21st: The searchings continue without Colbert.
September 23rd: 4:00 AMNDT the knight of Noailles is charged by Colbert with carrying certain parts to the king. It is Poncet which takes care some personally.

Cosnac which since the marriage of Mister at the end of March is turned over in its diocese is allocated to the court.
Continuation of the negociations. Retz request with Tellier which compensations will be offered to him in exchange of its resignation. The government offers the to him Abbaye of Saint-Denis in commende (returned of one hundred twenty thousand books per annum), sixty thousand books on the last incomes of the archbishop's palace, the amnesty for his/her friends and the re-establishment in their functions of the ecclesiastics disgraced by his fault.

October

Tuesday October 4th: died of Jacqueline Pascal.
October 10th: In London, a quarrel of precedence involves a brawl between the continuations of the count d' Estrade, ambassador of France, and the baron de Vatteville, ambassador of Spain.

Madam de Sévigné with the Mount-Saint-Michel.

November

Tuesday the 1st er November: Birth of the " Large Dauphin" Louis de France, wire of Louis XIV and MarieMarie-Therese of Austria; Choisy is pilot joy of the King and courtiers.
November 5th: Piccolomini announces to the pope the nomination by France as ambassador near the the Holy See of the duke of Créqui.
November 6th: Birth of future king d' Espagne, Charles II. He dies 39 years later and will be buried the day of sound 39e birthday.
November 15th: Royal edict creating the royal Room of justice. It is a question of seeking the " abuse, embezzlements made in finances since 1635 ". It will sit until July 1665 and will force the financial ones to compose.
November 16th: Checking by the Parliament, the Room of the accounts, the Court of the assistances of the royal edict creating the royal Room of justice.
November 24th: Conversion of Mrs. de Longueville.

December

Thursday the 1st er February: Fouquet is better. One moves it with the Château of Amboise. During the voyage, vociferating, spontaneous demonstrations?
December 3rd: Meeting of opening of the royal Room of justice in the room of the council of the Law courts. The room will move soon in a dependence of the court of the Currencies. Many financial are imprisoned at the same time as Fouquet, an about sixty.
December 8th: Immaculate Conception. Louis XIV and the queen goes to Chartres. They had made the wish for the birth of the dolphin.
December 24th: Christmas. The woman of Fouquet obtains from Châtelet the separation of goods with her husband to protect her fortune from the failure.
December 28th: Beatification of François Dirty.
December 29th: Died of Antoine Girard, lord de Saint-Amand.

At the end of December:
Fouquet starts from Amboise for Vincennes.
Retz, which does not have any more the penny, yields. Of Brussels, it is advisable with Tellier to be withdrawn in its seigniory of Commercy. There, it will sign its resignation of the archbishop's palace of Paris.

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