1637 in France

Events from the year 1637 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XIII

Events

Births

• 16 April – Johan Vibe, military officer and engineer, Governor-general of Norway (d. 1710)

Full date missing

• Nicolas Catinat, Marshal of France (died 1712)
• Jacques Marquette, Jesuit missionary (died 1675)

Deaths

Full date missing

• Philippe Habert, poet (born 1604)
• Augustin de Beaulieu, general (born 1589)
• Guillaume Courtet, Dominican priest, martyr (born 1589)
• Charles d'Ambleville, composer
• Henri de Bailly, composer

New books published

• René Descartes (1596–1650), <nowiki></nowiki>Discourse on the Method<nowiki></nowiki>.

See also

References