Meet Thévenard in Rouen

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Timeframe: Jun 01, 1690-Aug 01, 1690

2 months on the road to meet Thévenard in Rouen, make their plans and head for Paris. He joins the Opera immediately. The actual time with Thévenard should be short.

Rouen had a branch of the Opera, which opened early in 1689. In September 1688, royal permission was obtained to open a Rouen branch of the Académie Royale de Musique, and in January 1689, the leieutenant-general gave his permission.  Not long after that, the tennis court, le Jeu de Paume des Deux-Maures (or "Salle des Deux-Maures"), was converted to that purpose, and Lulli's tragédie de Phaëton, mise en musique opened.

Thus at the time that they meet the Académie. is still new, and both could have traveled there specifically to join it. There is, apparently a second theater in Rouen at the time, at a different Jeu de Paume, one that has had at least one serious incident involving rampaging lackeys. I don't know if Thévenard appeared with the Rouen Opera or if he was a wannabe, and la Maupin convinced him to try Paris instead.

Sources:

ID	Author	Title	Year
src-6	Cameron Rogers	Gallant Ladies	1928
src-15	Oscar Paul Gilbert, James Lewis May	Women in Men's Guise	1932

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