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Lettres Patentes du Roy pour l'établissement de l'Académie Royale de Danse en la ville de Paris (Louis XIV, 1662)
Publisher: Louis XIV (Roi de France et de Navarre, 1638-1715) / Pierre le Petit, Imprimeur & Libraire ordinaire du Roy, rue S. Jacques à la Croix d'Or, Paris 1663 (M. DC. LXIII), with Privilege du Roy. Source: BnF Gallica scan '1662-Lettres_(BNF).txt' (160-line ABBYY OCR; clean readable Baroque-era typography for the body of the text). INSTITUTIONAL SIGNIFICANCE: Foundational royal charter creating the Académie Royale de Danse in Paris, dated March 1661 in the body but registered in Parlement on 30 March 1662 (the date conventionally used for the institution's founding) and printed by Pierre le Petit in 1663. The text names the 13 founding Anciens — François Galland Sieur du Defert (Maistre ordinaire à Danser de la Reine), Jean Renauld (Maistre à Danser de Monsieur, frère du Roy), Thomas le Vacher, Hilaire d'Olivet, Jean & Guillaume Reynal (frères), Guillaume Queru, Nicolas de l'Orge, Jean François Piquet, Jean Grigny, Florent Galland Defert, and Guillaume Renauld — and codifies their authority through 12 numbered Statuts covering: monthly assembly (II), Saturday public instruction by 2 rotating Anciens (III), free admission for sons of masters (IV), advisory presence of additional Anciens (V), examination & admission of new Anciens at 150-300 livres tax (VI), compulsory registry of all professing dance-masters in Paris (VII), prior approval of new dances by majority vote (VIII), exemption from Lettres de Maîtrise (perpetual unguilded status), exemption from Tailles, Curatelles, Guet & Garde, and the Committimus privilege at Requestes ordinaires de l'Hôtel or du Palais. PRECEDES the Académie Royale de Musique (1669, Perrin/Lully privilège) by 7y; precedes Beauchamp's appointment as Surintendant des Ballets du Roi by ~18y; precedes Lorin 1685 manuscript by 23y; precedes Feuillet 1700 Chorégraphie by 38y. This is the single most-cited founding document in French Baroque dance institutional history — establishing the legal-regulatory framework within which every subsequent French source in our corpus operated: LOC-1685-LORIN, LOC-1688-LORIN-ROY, LOC-1690-PHILIDOR, LOC-1700-FEUILLET, LOC-1700-PECOUR-RECUEIL et seq., LOC-1701-FEUILLET-BNF, the Dezais XII-XVIII Recueil annual series 1712-1719, Rameau 1725 Maître à Danser, Compan 1787 Dictionnaire, and the entire Beauchamp-Feuillet character-notation tradition. The Academy's monopoly on dance-master examination/admission would persist until the 1789 Revolution dissolution of all royal academies. Has_Step_Detail=No (regulatory/legal text; no figure vocabulary or step description). Mints 1 institutional canonical (H-BAR-VAR-F0357) representing the founding act itself.Year: 1662Family: lettresCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Louis XIV (Roi de France et de Navarre, 1638-1715) / Pierre le Petit, Imprimeur & Libraire ordinaire du Roy, rue S. Jacques à la Croix d'Or, Paris 1663 (M. DC. LXIII), with Privilege du Roy. Source: BnF Gallica scan '1662-Lettres_(BNF).txt' (160-line ABBYY OCR; clean readable Baroque-era typography for the body of the text). INSTITUTIONAL SIGNIFICANCE: Foundational royal charter creating the Académie Royale de Danse in Paris, dated March 1661 in the body but registered in Parlement on 30 March 1662 (the date conventionally used for the institution's founding) and printed by Pierre le Petit in 1663. The text names the 13 founding Anciens — François Galland Sieur du Defert (Maistre ordinaire à Danser de la Reine), Jean Renauld (Maistre à Danser de Monsieur, frère du Roy), Thomas le Vacher, Hilaire d'Olivet, Jean & Guillaume Reynal (frères), Guillaume Queru, Nicolas de l'Orge, Jean François Piquet, Jean Grigny, Florent Galland Defert, and Guillaume Renauld — and codifies their authority through 12 numbered Statuts covering: monthly assembly (II), Saturday public instruction by 2 rotating Anciens (III), free admission for sons of masters (IV), advisory presence of additional Anciens (V), examination & admission of new Anciens at 150-300 livres tax (VI), compulsory registry of all professing dance-masters in Paris (VII), prior approval of new dances by majority vote (VIII), exemption from Lettres de Maîtrise (perpetual unguilded status), exemption from Tailles, Curatelles, Guet & Garde, and the Committimus privilege at Requestes ordinaires de l'Hôtel or du Palais. PRECEDES the Académie Royale de Musique (1669, Perrin/Lully privilège) by 7y; precedes Beauchamp's appointment as Surintendant des Ballets du Roi by ~18y; precedes Lorin 1685 manuscript by 23y; precedes Feuillet 1700 Chorégraphie by 38y. This is the single most-cited founding document in French Baroque dance institutional history — establishing the legal-regulatory framework within which every subsequent French source in our corpus operated: LOC-1685-LORIN, LOC-1688-LORIN-ROY, LOC-1690-PHILIDOR, LOC-1700-FEUILLET, LOC-1700-PECOUR-RECUEIL et seq., LOC-1701-FEUILLET-BNF, the Dezais XII-XVIII Recueil annual series 1712-1719, Rameau 1725 Maître à Danser, Compan 1787 Dictionnaire, and the entire Beauchamp-Feuillet character-notation tradition. The Academy's monopoly on dance-master examination/admission would persist until the 1789 Revolution dissolution of all royal academies. Has_Step_Detail=No (regulatory/legal text; no figure vocabulary or step description). Mints 1 institutional canonical (H-BAR-VAR-F0357) representing the founding act itself. (1662). Imported from local collection.