Festival personnel

1622-1673
Role: Author
Festivals: Celebration of the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle held at Versailles by Louis XIV, King of France, Versailles 1668
Festival Books: Le grand divertissement royal de Versailles. (published Paris, 1668)
French playwright and actor who is considered one of the greatest masters of comedy in western literature.
Publications: Le Tartuffe Versailles 1664.
George Dandin, first performed at 1668 festival with music between the acts.

Role: Author
Festivals: Christening in Kassel of Elisabeth, daughter of Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, 1596
Festival Books: The Landgrave of Hessen his princelie receiuing of her Maiesties Embassador. (published London, 1596)
Elizabeth I was godmother.

c.1563-1642
Role: Orator (Recorder of the City of London)
Festivals: Entries of James I and IV, Queen Anna and Prince Henry Frederick into London, 15th March 1603
Festival Books: The Magnificent Entertainment: Giuen to King Iames, Queene Anne his wife, and Henry Frederick the Prince, vpon the day of his Maiesties Triumphant Passage (from the Tower) through his Honourable Citie (and Chamber) of London being the 15. of March. 1603. (published London, 1604)
1st Earl of Manchester, English judge, politician and peer.
Grandson of Sir Edward Montagu, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, named by Henri VIII as one of the executors of his will and governor to Edward VI.
1603 elected recorder of London.
1616 Chief justice of the King's Bench, it fell to him to pass sentence on Sir Walter Raleigh, 1618.
1620 Lord High Treasurer.
1626 Charles I created him Earl of Manchester.

Role: Printer
Festivals: Entry into Rome of Christina, Queen of Sweden, Rome 1655
Festival Books: Vera relatione del viaggio fatto dalla maestà della regina di Suetia per tutto lo stato ecclesiastico. (published Rome, Bologna, 1656)
Bologna printer.

Role: Engraver
Festivals: Coronation of James II and Mary of Modena, London, 23rd April 1685
Festival Books: The History of the Coronation of the most high, most mighty, and most excellenet monarch James II, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. and of his most royal consort Queen Mary: solemnized in the Collegiate Church of St Peter in the City of Westminster, on Thursday the 23 of April, being the festival of St George, in the year of our Lord 1685. (published London, 1687)

Role: Printer
Festivals: Visit to Pope Gregory XIII by four Christian Japanese princes, Ito Mancio, Chijiwa Miguel, Nakamura Julian, and Hara Martinho, Rome, March 1585
Festival Books: Actes exhibez publiquement au consistoire par nostre saint pere Gregoire Pape xiij. aus ambassadeurs des rois du Iappon a Rome, le xxiij. mars. (published Liège, 1585)

Role: Author
Festivals: Funeral in Paris of Henri, Vicomte de Turenne, Paris 1675
Festival Books: A Description of the Funeral Solemnities, Performed in the Church of Nostre-Dame, at Paris: to Honour the Memory of his Excellency the Lord Henry de la Tour D'Avergne, Vicount Turenne ... (published London, 1675)

1552-1630
Role: Printer
Festivals: Ballet performed at the court of Catherine de'Medici on the occasion of Henri III's accession to the French throne, Paris 1573
Festival Books: Magnificentissimi spectaculi, a regina regum matre in hortis suburbanis editi, in Henrici regis Poloniae inuictissimi nuper renunciati gratulationem, Descriptio. (published Paris, 1573)
French painter employed by the King.

Role: Fireworks engineer
Festivals: Fireworks in Paris in honour of the feast of St. Louis and of Louis XIII, Paris, 25th-27th August 1613
Festival Books: Discours sur les triomphes qui ont esté faicts le 25. 26. [et] 27. aoust 1613. dans la ville de Paris. (published Lyons, 1613)
ET I (pgs.11,14) II (pgs.145-50,183,185,223) Ballet and fireworks engineer.
Fireworks in 1628 on the return of Louis XIII from the siege of La Rochelle, and 1632 entry of Anna of Austria, called on Horace Morel who had arranged fireworks on Midsummer Night, 1615.
Worked with Jumeau and Bagot.

Role: Author
Festivals: Journey of Margaret of Austria through Italy to marry Philip III, Verona 1598
Festival Books: Passagio della serenissima regina Maragarita d'Austria per il territorio veronese. (published Verona, 1598)