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Rameau and his work
First official signature of Jean-Philippe Rameau (aged 15), on a loan taken out by the Corporation des maîtres de danses et joueurs d'instruments, to which he belongs.
Rameau and his period
Equestrian statue of Louis XIV inaugurated in the Place Louis-le-Grand (now Place Vendôme) in Paris.
Première of Campra's first opera, L'Europe galante, at the Académie royale de musique.
Première of Amadis de Grèce by Destouches at the Académie royale de musique.
Première of Marthésie, reine des Amazones by Destouches at the Académie royale de musique.
Début at the Académie royale de musique of the dancer Françoise Prévost.
Death of Racine (Paris).