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Death Anniversary: Michele Mascitti — April 19, 1760

19 April 2027

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He died in Paris on 19 April 1760 at the venerable age of ninety-six, having lived in the French capital since 1704 under the patronage of the Duke of Orléans. Naturalised French in 1739, he published nine collections of violin sonatas that introduced Corelli’s Italian instrumental style to Parisian salons and concert societies.

A note on this date. The exact day of birth is not recorded in surviving parish registers of Villa Santa Maria (only the year c. 1664 is documented); we omit the birth anniversary and celebrate his death anniversary on 19 April. We publish it with the warning rather than leave the page out, and if you can point us to a register or an archive that carries it we will confirm or correct it.

Dates verified on Treccani, DBI, vol. 71 (2008), voce "MASCITTI, Michele" (https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/michele-mascitti_(Dizionario-Biografico)/); Bibliothèque nationale de France, notice de personne FRBNF13936660 (https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb139366609).

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Under 26 and living in the EU? Walk in free

The permanent collections of France’s national museums have been free to 18-to-25-year-olds resident in an EU country since 2009, and the national monuments — châteaux, abbeys, fortresses — apply the same rule. Bring photo ID: it is checked at the door. The monuments are also free to everyone on the first Sunday of the month in winter, from November to March.

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In September, the doors that are usually shut open

For one long weekend every September, some fifty European countries run the European Heritage Days together: palaces, workshops, archives and private houses that are closed the rest of the year let visitors in, almost always for nothing. France sets its own dates, and they are published a few weeks ahead.

Dates, country by country →

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