Monday, February 2, 2009

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Couperin's funeral


Dictation made Pignard-Antoine Duplessis, nd [1792]

" The four of this month of February was buried in Saint-Gervais Mr. Couperin, organist of the said church, on the occasion of this (sic) funeral, he had a scene that [has] done noise. Several priests at the instigation of Mr. Pluyette, sexton of the masses, have signed a letter of invective, which was sent to the eldest son of the deceased, told him and also sent the item and the fee for their presence.

Mr. Veytard must make a serious attention to this article
etc.
. "

The numbers (1-9 ) were transcribed at the bottom of this enigmatic character piece and followed VEY Détrevaux Pluyette Huré I ALPHABET and letters RX , and everything is signed Duplessis, a priest.

By working on the selection of songs from our upcoming exhibition (on temporary courts of the Revolution: Ten court, criminal court in the interim and August 17, 1792) we found this strange dictated that the public prosecutor has transcribed the priest Duplessis. We will remember this funny story of anonymous letters sent by a man named Antoine Pignard-Duplessis, deacon board at St. Gervais in Paris to denounce the vicar and the sacristan of the parish

"We recommend to your prayers three Filoux that raise all the money in good priest Veytard . These four are Filoux Destrevaux vicar, sexton of the little Pluyette sacristy Huré sacristan sacristy of the great ". The same

Pignard-Duplessis, who was relieved of the charge March 27, 1792 ( Z/3/60 , Judgement of 27 March 1792), and then déprêtrisa he distinguished himself as a chaplain of the battalion National Guard before being elected elector of the department of Paris ( read this post )

But back to this dictation that appears to function as part of expertise to recognize Pignard-Duplessis as the author of anonymous letters. He has therefore transcribe an extract from the register of burials of St. Gervais of "four of this February " (neither the day nor the year are listed). It was "buried Mr. Couperin, Francois is it the father, the organist and harpsichordist known? but he died September 11, 1733. But we know that he left the organ of St. Gervais in his ... cousin Nicolas Couperin ... also called, is the cousin of this?

Later in dictation, it evokes an "invective letter sent to the eldest son of the deceased ," is it Francis Lawrence, but he died soon after 1735 ...

was short of hard to decide ...

When you know that all parts of the BMS (baptisms, marriages and burials) established before 1792 in the parishes of Paris have disappeared in the fires of the Commune of 1871, I thought I found a very important information which have completed the story of Francis Couperin need to dream ... but still, the age of discovery "extraordinary" in the archives are gone I think ... Still

that this discovery in boxes of exhibits from the subseries Z / 3 allowed me to look deeper into the archives of the parish of Saint Gervais .

Referring to Guide to Sources of Vital Paris by Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyère (it's the same general curator of the investigation of the Regent ... like this, it is a Coincidentally, there is indeed a "law of series"). We note in passing that the 1983 edition of AD Paris (70 pages and 23 plates of vital records carried over from Paris famous) is the best source that can exist Vital Paris (information on AD site of Paris are very incomplete) ...

This guide to sources of Vital Paris tells us the fate of the parish registers of Saint-Gervais:

  1. In the fund of the Archdiocese Archives Paris, there is nothing on the graves. In the parish of Saint-Gervais, registers of burials not begin until 1802 (and until 1866), so nothing on this original piece that served as dictated Pignard-Duplessis.
  2. nothing for those dates in the series V 6E DA in Paris (this is registers escaped fires came after 1871 or the AD of Paris).
  3. And finally, St. Gervais, the BNF (code: 32838 ms) certainly keeps the records of baptisms (1531 to 1712), engagement and bans (from 1580 to 1694), marriages (from 1608 to 1712) and burials from 1639 to 1712 ... but this is well before the death of Couperin (whether the father, son or cousin).

No one will therefore probably never why, at the funeral of Couperin, " several priests, at the instigation of Mr. Pluyette, sexton of the masses, have signed a letter sent to the son of invective Elder [Couperin].

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