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Rameau and his work
Origine des Sciences, suivie d'une controverse sur le même sujet (Mercure de France).
‘Observations sur l’origine des Sciences’ (Mercure de France).
Rameau and his wife sign a nine-year lease on an apartment in rue des Bons-Enfants, with an annual rent from 1 January 1763 of 1,000 livres.
Partial revival of Les Fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour (‘Aruéris’) in the theatre at Choisy
Lettre aux Philosophes published in the Journal de Trévoux.
Rameau and his period
Building commences on the Petit Trianon for the marquise de Pompadour.
Première in Vienna of Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice.
Dauvergne and Joliveau become directors of the Concert Spirituel.
Première of Monsigny's opéra-comique, Le Roi et le Fermier, at the Théâtre Italien.
Début at the Académie royale de musique of the dancer Marie Allard (1742–1802).
Rousseau's Contrat social ou Principes du droit politique published in Amsterdam.
Rousseau's Émile, ou De l'Education published in The Hague.
Rousseau leaves Paris after being condemned by the supreme court of justice for the views expressed in his works.