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Rameau and his work
Death of Claude Demartinécourt, Jean-Philippe Rameau's mother.
Jean Rameau named guardian of his six children: Marguerite (aged 23), Élisabeth (19), Marie-Claude (16), Jean-Philippe (14), Philippe-Eugène (12) and Claude-Bernard (8).
Jean Rameau purchases for 2,700 livres a house in rue de la Vannerie.
Rameau sent for his schooling to the Jesuit Collège des Godrans in Dijon.
Rameau and his period
Treaties of Ryswick, ending the War of the League of Augsburg.
Première of Campra's first opera, L'Europe galante, at the Académie royale de musique.
Première of the first opera by Destouches, Issé, at Fontainebleau.
Birth of Leclair in Lyon.