Le Mariage de la Grosse Cathos -- Mascarade Mise en Musique par Philidor l'aisné, Ordinaire de la Musique du Roy (1688). Court divertissement-mascarade performed at Marly under Louis XIV. André Philidor l'aisné (1652?-1730)

composer/copyist of the Bibliothèque du Roy music collection at Versailles -- preserved this score in the BnF manuscript Ms. Rés. Vmf 6 (Source: gallica.bnf.fr). The work parodies Molière 1659 Précieuses Ridicules character Cathos as the "grosse" (fat) mariée, set to a typical Lullian-Philidor mascarade suite of overture, récits, and danced entrées. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1688-Favier-Mariage_(BNF).txt (15kB, mostly title/legal-page metadata; the OCR did not recover entrée-headings or dance-type labels from the engraved music — staves are not text-recoverable by ABBYY). HISTORIC POSITION: 1688 sits 23y after Lully Naissance-de-Vénus 1665 and 32y after Précieuses-Ridicules 1659; contemporaneous with Lorin 1688 Roy mascarade (LOC-1688-LORIN-ROY); 8y pre-Loulie Eléments 1696 (LOC-1696-LOULIE-ELEMENTS). Philidor l'aisné occupies the same Marly-Versailles Music-of-the-King environment as Lully (d.1687) and the post-Lully Lalande generation. Has_Step_Detail = No: musical-score MS, no choreographic step description; named-entrée labels likely present in source-image but not OCR-recoverable. Frame canonical minted; entrée-level canonicals deferred pending image-based reading.