1657 in France
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Events from the year 1657 in France
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- March – The Treaty of Paris allied the English Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell with King Louis XIV of France against King Philip IV of Spain.
- The 54th Infantry Regiment was formed.
Births
[edit]- 11 February – Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, writer (d. 1757)[2]
- 25 May – Henri-Pons de Thiard de Bissy, bishop and cardinal (d. 1737)
- 16 June – Louis Ellies Dupin, ecclesiastical historian (d. 1719)[3]
- 24 July – Jean Mathieu de Chazelles, hydrographer (d. 1710)
- 7 August – Henri Basnage de Beauval, Huguenot historian, lexicographer and journal editor (d. 1710)
- 9 August – Pierre-Étienne Monnot, sculptor (d. 1733)
- 15 December – Michel Richard Delalande, composer and organist (d. 1726)
Full date missing
[edit]- Jean-François de Chamillart, churchman (d. 1714)
- Anne Ferrand, writer (d. 1740)
- Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, fur trader and explorer (d. 1704)
- Jean-Baptiste Nolin, cartographer and engraver (d. 1708)
- Jacques Savary des Brûlons, lexicographer (d. 1716)
- Sébastien Truchet, Dominican priest, scientist and inventor (d. 1729)[4]
Deaths
[edit]- 19 February – Jean Riolan the Younger, anatomist (b. 1577 or 1580)
- 24 March – Philippe de La Mothe-Houdancourt, count and marshal (b. 1605)[5]
- 24 December – Philippe Le Sueur de Petiville, poet (b. 1607)
Full date missing
[edit]- Pompone de Bellièvre, magistrate, ambassador and statesman (b. 1606)
- Françoise de Lansac, courtier (b. 1582)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715)". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
- ^ "Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle". www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 687.
- ^ Raynal, Guillaume Thomas François (1766). "Jean-Sebastien Truchet, né à Lyon l'an 1657, mort en 1729".
- ^ "La Mothe-Houdancourt".