1664 in France

Events from the year 1664 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XIV

Events

• French West India Company established
• Kronenbourg Brewery established in Strasbourg

Births

• 5 April – Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine, noblewoman (died 1748)
• 22 May – François Blouet de Camilly, clergyman (died 1723)
• 16 July – Philippe Charles, Duke of Valois, prince (died 1666)
• 31 August – Paul Lucas, merchant, naturalist, physician and antiquarian (died 1737)

Deaths

• 8 January – Moses Amyraut, Protestant theologian and metaphysician (born 1596)
• 17 November – Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt, translator (born 1606)

Full date unknown

• Michel Corneille the Elder, painter (born c.1601)
• Charles Racquet, organist and composer (born 1597)
• Antoine Singlin, Jansenist Catholic priest (born 1607)
• David Derodon, Calvinist theologian and philosopher (born c.1600)

See also

• Kronenbourg 1664, a beer

References