1678 in France

Events from the year 1678 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XIV

Events

• 23 July – The Battle of Ortenbach, part of the Franco-Dutch War
• 14 August – The Battle of Saint-Denis, the last major action of the Franco-Dutch War
• August 1678 to December 1679 – The Treaties of Nijmegen, in the aftermath of the Franco-Dutch War of 1672–78

Births

• 25 August – Jacques Caffieri, sculptor (d. 1755)

Full date unknown

• Augustin Lippi, botanist and physician (d. 1675)

Deaths

• 16 January Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé, writer and salonnière (b. 1599)
• 4 June – Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, noblewoman and Princess of Monaco (b. 1639)

Full date unknown

• Jacques de Chevanes, polemicist (b. ca. 1608)
• Robert Desgabets, Cartesian philosopher and Benedictine prior (b. 1610)
• Gilles Guérin, sculptor (b. 1611)

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