Citation - Pennsylvania Gazette-Philadelphia: 1729.04.03

PG-P.729.016
3 Apr 1729:21 (15)
Paris, Dec. 21.  On the 16th the Royal Academy of Musick
celebrated in the Church of the Barefooted Augustines, a
service for the repose of the soul of a young woman, who had
been an actress of the opera.  All the actors and actresses
of the opera were to have sung the hymns Dies Illa and the
De Profundis, but just as the musick was beginning to play,
came an order from Cardinal de Noailles to forbid it.