ABSTRACT
Carpentras can be connected with the chapel of Louis XII not through documents, but through his own admission; in the dedication to Cardinal Ippolito de’ Medici of the print of his Liber Hymnorum (1532), he stated that he had been recalled to Rome from the French court by Leo X at the beginning of his pontificate. Longueval had moved from Ferrara to the royal chapel around 1507. He was one of a number of singers in the chapel of François I granted benefices and favors by Leo X. The most interesting information concerns the extent and quality of the chapel of Anne de Bretagne. While it has long been known that she had a private chapel, and that Mouton was one of her singers, it had not been known that the Queen employed others of the rising generation of French composers; in fact she employed almost all of them, or that she had such a large chapel.
