1640 in France

Events from the year 1640 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XIII

Events

• Introduction of the Louis d'or
• The Battle of Cádiz

Births

• 9 March Jacques d'Agar, portrait painter (died 1715)

Full date missing

• Étienne Chauvin, Protestant divine (died 1725)
• Marguerite de la Sablière, salonist and polymath (died 1693)

Deaths

• 30 May – André Duchesne, historian and geographer (born 1584)

Full date missing

• Claude de Bullion, aristocrat and politician (born 1569)
• John Francis Regis, priest (born 1597)
• Isaac Manasses de Pas, Marquis de Feuquieres, soldier (born 1590)

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