1688 in France

Events from the year 1688 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XIV

Events

• January 29 – Madame Jeanne Guyon, French mystic, is arrested in France and imprisoned for seven months.
• February 28 – The French opera David et Jonathas, composed by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, is performed for the first time.
• May 17 - Louis-Hector de Callière, Governor of Montreal proposes to Louis XIV to invade New England by land and sea. The attack began in 1690.
• December 11 – Having led his army to Salisbury and been deserted by his troops, James VII and II attempts to flee to France.

Births

• 29 April - Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder, engraver (died 1754)
• 29 October - Jacques Chereau, engraver and printmaker (died 1776

Deaths

• 2 February - Abraham Duquesne, naval officer (born 1610)

• 14 May - Antoine Furetière, writer (born 1619)
• 9 September - Claude Mellan, engraver and painter (born 1598)
• 9 October - Claude Perraut, architect (born 1613)
• 26 November - Philippe Quinault, librettist and dramatist (born 1635)
• Unknown - Nicolas Denys, aristocrat, explorer, colonizer and soldier in New France (born 1598?)

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