1663 in France

Events from the year 1663 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XIV

Events

• The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres is founded
• Construction of the Church of Saint-Just, Lyon is completed
• The Prix de Rome scholarship is established for students of the arts

Births

• 16 March – Jean-Baptiste Matho, composer (d 1743)
• 25 March – Félix Le Pelletier de La Houssaye, statesman (d. 1723)
• 2 June – Anne-Marguerite Petit du Noyer, journalist (d. 1719)
• 24 June – Jean Baptiste Massillon, Roman Catholic bishop and famous preacher (d. 1742)
• 26 July – Louis Carré, mathematician (d. 1711)
• 5 August – Charles-Armand de Gontaut, duc de Biron, military leader (d. 1756)
• 31 August – Guillaume Amontons, scientific instrument inventor and physicist (d. 1705)
• 1 September – Jean Boivin the Younger, writer, scholar and translator (d. 1726)
• 20 September – Louis-François Duplessis de Mornay, prelate (d. 1741)
• 18 October – Prince Eugene of Savoy, military commander (d. 1736)
• 14 December – Jean de Forcade de Biaix (d. 1729)

Full date unknown

• Jacques Adam, translator (d. 1735)
• Louis Deseschaliers, actor
• Jean-Baptiste Labat, clergyman, botanist, writer, explorer, ethnographer, soldier, engineer and landowner (d. 1738)
• Louis Laguerre, painter (d. 1721)
• Louis Le Pelletier, linguist (d. 1733)
• Raveneau de Lussan, buccaneer
• Pierre-Denis Martin, painter (d. 1742)

Deaths

• 11 may – Henri II d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville (b. 1595)
• 5 June – Béatrix de Cusance, baroness (b. 1614)
• 20 June – Catherine Henriette de Bourbon, Légitimée de France, Duchess of Elbeuf (b. 1596)
• 31 October – Théophile Raynaud, Jesuit theologian and writer (b. 1583)
• 27 December – Christine of France, Duchess of Savoy (b. 1606)

Full date unknown

• Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède, novelist and dramatist (b. 1609 or 1610)
• Claude de Bourdeille, comte de Montrésor, aristocrat and Count of Montrésor (born c. 1606)

See also

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