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For the name Hôtel de Bourbon, see the Paris maps of Truschet & Hoyau (1550) and Saint Victor (1550); for the name Petit-Bourbon, see the map of Gomboust (1652). The latter also shows a street next to the Petit-Bourbon running perpendicular to the Louvre as the rue du Petit-Bourbon. This Hôtel de
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The dimensions of the hall were ample by Parisian standards: 15 meters wide and 35 meters long with an apse adding an additional 13.5 meters at one end. During the Estates General of 1614, the King and his courtiers sat in the apse, which was decorated with
183:, from 1303 to 1404 the Bourbons purchased houses of more than 300 persons to assemble the site on which their new hotel was built. Over the years they augmented and embellished it such that it became one of the most magnificent in the kingdom. 313:. It was first performed on 29 January 1617, when the King danced a demon of fire. It was not difficult to draw a parallel between Tancrède and his knights fighting the monsters of the enchanted forest and Louis XIII and his favorite, 464: 937: 545:). The former rue du Petit-Bourbon near Saint-Sulpice is now the portion of the rue Saint-Sulpice which runs between the rue de Tournon and the rue Garancière and can be found on the 278: 942: 404: 947: 187:
describes the great hall and the chapel (which both still existed at the time he was writing), as the largest and most sumptuous of their kind in Paris.
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in December 1645. The production employed elaborate stage scenery with set changes and special effects accomplished via theatre machines designed by
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needed to be in Paris in order to pay their respects to the king and to receive his favors. They therefore constructed magnificent town houses (
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Anthony 2001. Marguerite de Vaudémont, also known as Marguerite of Lorraine, was the Queen's half-sister, daughter of the Queen's father
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was performed on 14 April 1654 with Torelli's scenic machinery again the main attraction, and again Louis XIV danced six roles:
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enlarged the fortress of the Louvre in order to use it as a royal residence. On two 1550 maps it is shown simply as the
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and his actors were evicted, and the Petit-Bourbon was pulled down to make space for the construction of the
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was premiered. This was yet another spectacular play designed by Torelli. The incidental music composed by
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The French Stage and Playhouse in the XVIIth Century: A Study in the Advent of the Italian Order
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Discours au vray du ballet dansé par le roy, le dimanche XXIXe jour de janvier M. VIc. XVII
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appeared as the "Sun brilliant with light" and danced five other roles. The Italian opera
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was performed by "sixty-four voices, twenty-eight viols, and fourteen lutes conducted by
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Mazarin's triumph over the Frondeurs and return from exile was celebrated with the
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at the Petit-Bourbon on 20 August 1572, at the time of the wedding of the Catholic
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of 1614 and 1615 and some of the celebrations accompanying the marriage of
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performed as a ballet) was held in the Grande Salle in February 1605. The
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to the east. It was constructed in the 14th century, not long after the
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When in the fourteenth century the kings of France began to use the
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Music in the Service of the King. France in the Seventeenth Century
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Anthony, James R. (2001). "Ballet de cour" in Sadie 2001. Also at
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at the time, plotted to partition France against the will of King
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The History of Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day
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Isherwood 1973, pp. 129–130; Bjurström 1962, pp. 128, 160–176.
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Buildings and structures in the 1st arrondissement of Paris
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Histoire et recherches des antiquite's de la ville de Paris
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View of the river facade of the Petit-Bourbon (with the
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Buildings and structures demolished in the 17th century
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Bjurström 1962, pp. 122, 134–133; Howarth 1997, p. 204.
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Timms, Colin (2001). "Tourney" in Sadie 2001. Also at
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was intended to cover up the noise of the machinery.
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Salle du Petit-Bourbon
48°51′34″N 2°20′23″E / 48.85950°N 2.33970°E / 48.85950; 2.33970

Louvre
Stefano della Bella

House of Bourbon
right bank
Seine
Louvre
Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois
Capetian
kings of France
Gomboust
troupe of Molière
Molière
Louvre Colonnade

Estates General
Louvre
courtiers
hôtels particuliers
Henri Sauval
Henri Sauval
Charles III, Duke of Bourbon
Constable of France
Francis I

Ballet Comique de la Reine
Catherine de' Medici

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