1648 in France

Events from the year 1648 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XIV
• Regent: Anne of Austria

Events

• 23 March – Treaty of Concordia
• 17 May – Battle of Zusmarshausen
• 20 August – Battle of Lens

Births

• 5 August – Guichard Joseph Duverney, anatomist (died 1730)

Deaths

Full date missing

• François de Cauvigny de Colomby, poet, translator and King's counsellor (born c.1588)
• Vincent Voiture, writer (born 1597)
• Isaac de Caus, architect and landscaper (born 1590)
• Marin Mersenne, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, "father of acoustics" (born 1588)

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