Denis Macé

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Denis Macé [Massé] was a French musician and composer, born around 1600 and died before June 1663, active in Paris in the middle of the 17th century. He is known as a master of music and composed mostly spiritual or secular music. He is the son of Ja[cques?] Macé. Bourgeois of Paris, then residing in the rue and parish of Saint-Pierre-aux-Bœufs , he married on 26 November 1629 Geneviève de Hellan [Hélan, Helen, Hellen], daughter of Jean Hélan exempt from the king's guards. The couple has at least seven children: two boys and five girls, at least one of whom dies young; they were baptized between August 22, 1630 andDecember 1 , 1648, still in Saint-Pierre-aux-Bœufs. The couple seems to have enjoyed a relative ease, since on January 19, 1635, we see Denis Macé and Claude Darbonnet renting a house located rue des Vieux-Augustins to a master wheelwright-coachbuilder for 524 [tournament pounds|lt] per year; in April 1647 his wife and sister-in-law Catherine Hélan had masonry works appraised for a house in the same street (probably the same). On March 4, 1648, Catherine donated to her sister Geneviève all the property that would belong to her at the time of her death, and in particular this house in rue des Vieux-Augustins; we then learn that the couple Macé-Hélan then lived rue des Marmousets, located on the Île de la Cité, still in the same parish. On June 6, 1663, Geneviève Macé was already a widow when she filed a declaration relating to this house. In 1680 and 1681, three

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