1680 in France

Events from the year 1680 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XIV

Events

• Chambers of Reunion (French courts under Louis XIV) decide on complete annexation of Alsace.

Births

• 23 February – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (d. 1767)
• 9 April – Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist (d. 1754)

Deaths

• 22 February – Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress (b. c. 1607)
• 14 March – René Le Bossu, French critic (b. 1631)
• 17 March – François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (b. 1613)
• 23 March – Nicolas Fouquet, French statesman (b. 1615)

Full date unknown

• Marie Meurdrac, French chemist and alchemist (b. 1610)

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