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Rameau and his work
Rameau marries the nineteen-year-old singer Marie-Louise Mangot at the church of St Germain l'Auxerrois in Paris; her father is a musician (‘symphoniste du roi’) and her mother a dancer.
Rameau provides his father-in-law, Jacques Mangot, with a harpsichord; Mangot signs an acknowledgement of debt (200 livres). Rameau living in rue des Petits-Champs.
Rameau living in rue des Petits-Champs.
Première of L'Enrôlement d'Arlequin, Théâtre d'Honoré, Foire Saint-Germain.
Première of La Robe de dissension, Théâtre d'Honoré et Francisque, Foire Saint-Laurent.
Nouveau système de musique théorique published in Paris.
Rameau and his period
Cardinal de Fleury appointed chief minister of Louis XV.
Death of Lalande.
Birth of Philidor, ‘le Grand’.
Première of the last opera by Destouches, Les Stratagèmes de l'Amour, at the Académie royale de musique.
Première of the first opera by Rebel and Francœur, Pyrame et Thisbé, at the Académie royale de musique.
Début at the Académie royale de musique of the dancer Marie-Anne Cupis de Camargo.
Destouches appointed surintendant of the Musique de la Chambre, following the death of Lalande.
Voltaire's second imprisonment in the Bastille, followed by exile to England.