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  • Mausolée de Monsieur et de Madame la Dauphine à Saint-Denis le 17 avril 1712

  • Callirhoë : 1765 Versailles : Mlle Lavinie

  • Callirhoé

  • Callirhoé

  • Idoménée

  • Idoménée

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

Rameau and his work

Death of Élisabeth de Finance, Jean-Philippe Rameau's sister; he is in Lyon at the time and does not return to Dijon.                

In a new will, Jean Rameau leaves his family home to Jean-Philippe and Claude-Bernard.

Rameau and his period

Deaths of the Duc de Bourgogne (the ‘Petit Dauphin’) and his wife Marie-Adélaïde, the parents of Louis XV.       

Following the death of the Duc de Bretagne, the Duc d'Anjou, his elder brother, becomes Dauphin.

Handel settles in England.

Première of Callirhoé by Destouches at the Académie royale de musique.

Première of Campra's Idoménée at the Académie royale de musique.

Birth of Rousseau in Geneva.