1660 in France

Events from the year 1660 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XIV

Events

• Carib Expulsion: French-led ethnic cleansing removes most of the Carib population of the island of Martinique.
• Blaise Pascal's Lettres provinciales, a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, is ordered by the king to be shredded and burned.

Births

• January – Hippolyte Hélyot, historian (died 1716)
• 30 November – Victor-Marie d'Estrées, Marshal of France (died 1737)
• 4 December (bapt.) – André Campra, composer and conductor (died 1744)

Deaths

• 10 June – Étienne de Flacourt, governor of Madagascar, drowned at sea (born 1607)
• 5 November – Alexandre de Rhodes, Jesuit missionary (born 1591)
• 1 December – Pierre d'Hozier, genealogist (born 1592)
• 3 December – Jacques Sarazin, sculptor (born 1588/90)

Full date unknown

• Jean Boulanger, painter (born 1606)
• Jean-Jacques Chifflet, physician and antiquary (born 1588)
• Richard Tassel, religious painter (born 1582)
• Christophe Tassin, cartographer (born early 1600s)

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