1657 in France

Events from the year 1657 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XIV

Events

• 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

• 11 February – Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, writer (d. 1757)
• 25 May – Henri-Pons de Thiard de Bissy, bishop and cardinal (d. 1737)
• 16 June – Louis Ellies Dupin, ecclesiastical historian (d. 1719)
• 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 unknown

• 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)

Deaths

• 19 February – Jean Riolan the Younger, anatomist (b. 1577 or 1580)
• 24 March – Philippe de La Mothe-Houdancourt, count and marshal (b. 1605)
• 24 December – Philippe Le Sueur de Petiville, poet (b. 1607)

Full date unknown

• Pompone de Bellièvre, magistrate, ambassador and statesman (b. 1606)
• Françoise de Lansac, courtier (b. 1582)

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