1653 in France

1653
in
France
Decades:
  • 1630s
  • 1640s
  • 1650s
  • 1660s
  • 1670s
See also:Other events of 1653
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Events from the year 1653 in France.

Incumbents

  • Monarch: Louis XIV[1]

Events

  • 3 February – Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile.
  • Petite post, a system of postage using prepaid labels and post boxes, is introduced in Paris by Jean-Jacques Renouard de Villayer.
  • Madeleine de Scudéry and her friend, the lutenist Mlle Bocquet, launch a salon.
  • Jean-Baptiste Boësset and Jean-Baptiste Lully start their collaboration to produce ballets de cour
  • Blaise Pascal publishes his Traité du triangle arithmétique in which he describes Pascal's triangle; and his Traités de l’équilibre des liqueurs in which he explains Pascal's law.

Births

  • 24 January – Dom Jacques Alexandre, Benedictine (d. 1734)
  • 1 March – Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour, classical scholar (d. 1730)
  • 24 March – Joseph Sauveur, mathematician (d. 1716)
  • 8 May – Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Marshal of France (d. 1734)
  • 10 August – Louis-Guillaume Pécour, dancer and choreographer (d. 1729)
  • 8 October – Michel Baron, actor (d. 1729)
  • 20 October – Charles-François Poerson, painter (d. 1725)
    • Undated
    • Sébastien Barras, painter and engraver (d. 1703)
    • Jacques-Philippe Ferrand, miniaturist and painter in enamel (d. 1732)
    • Nicolas Fouché, painter (d. 1733)

Deaths

  • 10 July – Gabriel Naudé, librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
  • 26 June – Juliana Morell, Dominican nun and scholar (b. 1594 in Spain)
  • 3 September – Claudius Salmasius, classical scholar (b. 1588)
  • 23 September – Jacques Goar, Hellenist (b. 1601)
  • 26 September – Charles de l'Aubespine, marquis de Châteauneuf, diplomat and government official (b. 1580)

See also

References

  1. ^ "BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715)". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2022.