411 REFERENCE · Wikipedia
1670 in France
Reference material by Wikipedia contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
none
1670
Events from the year 1670 in France.
Incumbents
Monarch – Louis XIVBBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715) https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/louis_xiv.shtml www.bbc.co.uk 9 June 2022
Events
January – Françoise-Marguerite, daughter of Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, marries the Comte de Grignan.https://archive.org/stream/selectionsfromra00raberich/selectionsfromra00raberich_djvu.txt The letters of Madame de Sevigne to her daughter and friends Roberts Bros 1878 2013-02-27
1 June – At Dover, England, Louis XIV and Charles II of England sign the Secret Treaty of Dover, ending hostilities between their kingdoms. Louis will give Charles 200,000 pounds annually. In return, Charles will relax the laws against Catholics, gradually re-Catholicize England, support French policy against the Dutch Republic, and convert to Catholicism himself.
14 October – The première of Molière's 5-act comédie-ballet Le Bourgeois gentilhomme is performed by his troupe with himself in the title rôle before Louis XIV and the royal court at the Château de Chambord, with incidental music by Jean-Baptiste Lully.
21 November – The première of Racine's tragedy Berenice takes place with the Comédiens du Roi at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris.Garreau Joseph E. Jean Racine Hochman, Stanley 1984 McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama 2nd 4 New York McGraw-Hill 978-0-07-079169-5 194
24 November – Louis XIV authorises work to commence on construction of Les Invalides, the veterans' hospital in Paris.
The first French settlers arrive at the Petite Côte of modern-day Senegal.
Jean Picard calculates the Earth radius to within 0.44% of the modern value.Barentine John C. The Lost Constellations: A History of Obsolete, Extinct, or Forgotten Star Lore 2015 Springer 9783319227955 308 https://books.google.com/books?id=u_7NCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA308 en
Births
thumb|James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick
21 August – James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, military leader (died 1734)Berwick, James Fitzjames 95 Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon 3 1915 2 Blangstrup, Chr. Christian Blangstrup J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel Copenhagen da https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/3/0107.html 27 August 2015
24 August – Louis Galloche, French painter (died 1761)
14 December – Jean-Baptiste Dubos, historian (died 1742)
Full date unknown
Louis Audran, engraver (died 1712)
François Boitard, printmaker and illustrator (died ca. 1715)
Catherine-Charlotte de Boufflers, court official (died 1739)
Deaths
17 January – Jean Leurechon, Jesuit priest and mathematician (born 1591)
21 January
Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan, aristocrat, soldier, poet, dramatist and original member of the Académie française (born 1589)
Claude Duval, highwayman, hanged in England (born 1643)
2 March – François-Henri Salomon de Virelade, lawyer (born 1620)
10 March – Ludovicus a S. Carolo, Carmelite scholar, writer, and bibliographer (born 1608)
9 April – Samuel de Sorbiere, physician, philosopher, and translator (born 1615)
28 April – Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy, aristocrat, statesman and military leader (born 1596 or 1603)
10 May – Claude Vignon, painter (born 1593)
14 June – François Annat, Jesuit theologian (born 1590)
11 September – Jeanne Chezard de Matel, mystic (born 1596)
28 September – Alexander Morus, Calvinist preacher (born 1616)
11 October – Louis Le Vau, architect (born 1612)
Full date unknown
Nicolas Prévost, painter (born 1604)
See also
France History Lists
References
1670
Category:1670s in France
France