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  • Prêtresse Mlle Guimard tout blanc et argent

  • Fragment du prologue

  • Les Indes galantes

  • Bal à la cour de Louis XV

  • Les voyages de l'Amour

  • Frédéric II, roi de Prusse (1712-1786), dit Frédéric le Grand

Rameau and his work

L'Agenda du Voyageur mentions Rameau as organist at Ste Croix de la Bretonnerie and at the church of the Jesuit Novitiate.  

Quarrel between Rameau and Père Castel: in July a letter from Rameau to Castel is published in the Journal de Trévoux.

Rameau's sacred opera Samson, to a libretto by Voltaire, is banned by the censors.

First revival of Les Indes galantes (with the addition of a new act, ‘Les Sauvages’) at the Académie royale de musique.

Third edition of the Second Livre de Pièces de clavecin.

Les Indes galantes performed at Versailles, Concert de la Reine, 20 and 22 February.

Rameau and his period

Decoration work completed on the Hercules Salon at Versailles, henceforth to serve as the usual court ballroom. 

Première of Boismortier's Les Voyages de l'Amour at the Académie royale de musique.

Beginning of the long correspondence between Voltaire and Frederick II of Prussia.