1663 in France

1663
in
France
Decades:
  • 1640s
  • 1650s
  • 1660s
  • 1670s
  • 1680s
See also:Other events of 1663
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Events from the year 1663 in France

Incumbents

  • Monarch – Louis XIV[1]

Events

  • The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres is founded
  • Construction of the Church of Saint-Just, Lyon is completed
  • The Prix de Rome scholarship is established for students of the arts

Births

Jean Baptiste Massillon
Raveneau de Lussan
  • 16 March – Jean-Baptiste Matho, composer (d 1743)
  • 25 March – Félix Le Pelletier de La Houssaye, statesman (d. 1723)
  • 2 June – Anne-Marguerite Petit du Noyer, journalist (d. 1719)
  • 24 June – Jean Baptiste Massillon, Roman Catholic bishop and famous preacher (d. 1742)[2]
  • 26 July – Louis Carré, mathematician (d. 1711)
  • 5 August – Charles-Armand de Gontaut, duc de Biron, military leader (d. 1756)
  • 31 August – Guillaume Amontons, scientific instrument inventor and physicist (d. 1705)
  • 1 September – Jean Boivin the Younger, writer, scholar and translator (d. 1726)
  • 20 September – Louis-François Duplessis de Mornay, prelate (d. 1741)
  • 18 October – Prince Eugene of Savoy, military commander (d. 1736)
  • 14 December – Jean de Forcade de Biaix (d. 1729)

Full date missing

  • Jacques Adam, translator (d. 1735)
  • Louis Deseschaliers, actor
  • Jean-Baptiste Labat, clergyman, botanist, writer, explorer, ethnographer, soldier, engineer and landowner (d. 1738)
  • Louis Laguerre, painter (d. 1721)
  • Louis Le Pelletier, linguist (d. 1733)
  • Raveneau de Lussan, buccaneer[3]
  • Pierre-Denis Martin, painter (d. 1742)

Deaths

Béatrix de Cusance
Christine of France
  • 11 may – Henri II d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville (b. 1595)
  • 5 June – Béatrix de Cusance, baroness (b. 1614)
  • 20 June – Catherine Henriette de Bourbon, Légitimée de France, Duchess of Elbeuf (b. 1596)
  • 31 October – Théophile Raynaud, Jesuit theologian and writer (b. 1583)
  • 27 December – Christine of France, Duchess of Savoy (b. 1606)

Full date missing

  • Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède, novelist and dramatist (b. 1609 or 1610)
  • Claude de Bourdeille, comte de Montrésor, aristocrat and Count of Montrésor (born c. 1606)

See also

References

  1. ^ "BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715)". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
  2. ^ "Jean-Baptiste Massillon (1663-1742)". academie-francaise.fr. Archived from the original on 14 February 2009. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  3. ^ Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Lussan, Raveneau de" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.