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Rameau and his work
Les Indes Galantes performed at the Académie de Musique in Lyon.
Letter from Rameau to Sainte-Albine about Platée, published in the Mercure de France.
Première of Naïs at the Académie royale de musique.
Revival of Platée ou Junon jalouse at the Académie royale de musique.
Première of Zoroastre (first version) at the Académie royale de musique.
Rameau and his period
Première in London of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks.
The City of Paris takes over the running of the Académie royale de musique.
Death of Destouches.
Death of Clérambault.
Première of Mondonville's Le Carnaval du Parnasse at the Académie royale de musique.
Rebel becomes "surintendant de la Musique de la Chambre" after the death of Destouches.
Madame Geoffrin opens her salon in Paris.
Diderot's Lettre sur les aveugles, Ã l'usage de ceux qui voient published in London.
Philidor's Analyse des échecs published in London.
First three volumes of Buffon's Histoire naturelle de l'homme published in Paris.