Convent connections: the musical networks of English convents in France, the exiled Stuart court and the Couperin family

Convent connections: the musical networks of English convents in France, the exiled Stuart court and the Couperin family O n 14 May 1696, the exiled Catholic queen of England, Mary of Modena, and her children were received with much fanfare into the English Augustinian Convent in Paris.The convent's Diurnal describes the elaborate musical rituals typical for visits by the exiled Jacobite royal family: Their Royall Highnesses the Prince of Wales & his Sister the Princesse Louise-Mary honored our Monastery w[i]th their presence: they were received by the R[everen]d Mother Superior at the Quier-dore, & placed under a Canopie in the middle of the Quier, whilst the Community sung the Te Deum & the Domine Salvum fac regem.There they were conducted to the Infirmary, w[hi]ch was handsomely hung w[i]th Mad[am]e de Fontenay's Hanging & a Collation prepared for them; w[i]th a Present to each of them of the Religious their worke, Mad[am]e de Fontenay sent, to make part of the Collation, a great baskett of very fair Pears and Peaches.