1633 in France

Events from the year 1633 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XIII

Events

• January 12 – Congregation of the Mission founded by Vincent de Paul is constituted as a congregation by the pope in the bull Salvatoris nostri.
• January 15 – Edict creating the Parliament of Metz, which supersedes the courts of justice of the Three Bishoprics.
• January 17–19 – Quarrel between Diogo de Oliviera, alias Sindicario, a member of the Portuguese marrano community of Rouen, and Diego de Cisneros, a Spanish priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of León in Spain, over a request for a catholicity certificate. The case is brought before the courts and causes the dispersion of part of the Rouen marrano community, some finding refuge in Lille, Antwerp and London. The Spanish priests Cisneros and Juan Bautista de Villadiego, denounced as spies, as well as Oliviera, are arrested. The 36 marranos accused of crypto-Judaism are finally absolved on June 30 after an investigation by the King's Council and the promise to pay 250000 livres to the crown.
• February 25 – Arrest of Charles de L'Aubespine, Keeper of the Seals of France; he is imprisoned at Angoulême. On the same day his friend François de Rochechouart, chevalier de Jars, is imprisoned in the Bastille.
• February 28 – Pierre Séguier becomes Keeper of the Seals of France (until 1650).
• March 1 – Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France, on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.
• April 19 – The Treaty of Bärwalde is renewed between France and Sweden at the congress of Heilbronn. On April 23 an alliance is concluded between Sweden and the Upper Rhenish Circle, the Lower Rhenish-Westphalian Circle, the Swabian Circle and the Franconian Circle against Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.
• June 24 – The ' (compagnie Rozée) obtains a 1-year monopoly of trade with Cape Verde, Senegal, The Gambia and (from 14 January 1634) Guinea.
• June 25 – Beginning of Vincent de Paul’s regular Tuesday ecclesiastical conferences.
• August 22 – First of the published weekly conferences on subjects of interest arranged by Théophraste Renaudot in Paris.
• September 6 – Treaty of La Neuveville between Cardinal Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine, and Richelieu, completed on September 20 by the (in the Vosges) signed by Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine and ratified by the king.
• September 25 – Entry of the king into Nancy marking the occupation of the Duchy of Lorraine by France.
• November 18 – A sumptuary law prohibits all subjects from wearing gold or silver embroidery.
• November 23 – Decision of the Conseil du Roi (confirmed by the Parlement of Paris on 5 July 1634), to construct a new section of the city walls of Paris.
• November 29 – Systematic training of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul in nursing by their co-founder Louise de Marillac begins.