Lettre du roy escrite à Monseigneur le cardinal de Noailles, archevêque de Paris : pour faire chanter le "Te Deum" dans l'église de Nostre-Dame, en action de graces de la prise du Quesnoy par l'armée de Sa Majesté.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

France. Sovereign (1643-1715 : Louis XIV)

Contributor:

Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.

Josse, Louis, 1655-1739, printer.

Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Paris (France). Archbishop (1695-1729 : Noailles)

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Festivals--France--Paris--Early works to 1800.

Festivals.

Te Deum laudamus (Music).

France--History--Louis XIV, 1643-1715.

France.

History.

France--History, Military--1643-1715.

History, Military.

Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1714.

Te Deum laudamus (Music)--France--Early works to 1800.

France--Paris.

Penn Provenance:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate)

Physical Description:

4 pages ; 25 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

e.te dees ntte i-us (C) 1712 (R)

Place of Publication:

A Paris : Chez Josse, imprimeur de Son Eminence Monseigneur l'archevêque ..., MDCCXII [1712]

Notes:

Signed at end by "Louis, et plus bas, Phelypeaux" with date reading: Ecrit à Versailles le dixiéme octobre 1712 [10 Oct. 1712]

Letter written by King Louis XIV to the archbishop of Paris [i.e. Cardinal Louis Antoine de Noailles] regarding the peformance of the hymn "Te Deum laudamus" in celebration of the seizure of Le Quesnoy by royal forces during the War of the Spanish Succession.

Arms of the archbishop of Paris on title page; head-piece; initial.

Signatures: pi².

Local Notes:

Lea Library copy has Henry Charles Lea's bookplate on front pastedown and autograph dated 1856 on front fly leaf.

Lea Library copy bound with: Relation de ce qui s'est passé à la bataille donnée le 11 septembre 1709 auprès de Mons. [Paris] : De l'Imprimerie de Frederic Leonard ..., [ca. 1709]. [item 49 of 64]

OCLC:

615664338