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1624
Events from the year 1624 in France.
Incumbents
Monarch: Louis XIIISturdy David Richelieu and Mazarin: A Study in Statesmanship 14 March 2017 Bloomsbury Publishing 978-1-350-31732-1 20 https://books.google.com/books?id=W_VGEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT20 en
Events
Winter – The Rhône and the vineyards of Languedoc freeze.Fernand Braudel Fernand Braudel La Méditerranée et le monde méditerranéen à l'époque de Philippe II Colin 1982 9782200360078 250
2 January – Disgrace of Nicolas Brûlart de Sillery and Pierre Brûlart, marquis de Sillery.Jean-Chrétien-Ferdinand Hœfer Nouvelle Biographie générale 43 Firmin-Didot Paris 1867 995
6 January – Étienne Ier d'Aligre becomes Keeper of the Seals of France.Louis Moreri Le Grand Dictionnaire historique 1 Mariette Paris 1725 308
29 April – Louis XIII appoints Cardinal Richelieu to the Conseil du Roi (Royal Council).Françoise Hildesheimer La double mort du roi Louis XIII Flammarion 9782081277748
May – Croquant rebellions in Quercy, suppressed on 7 June by Marshal de Thémines.Yves-Marie Bercé Histoire des Croquants Le Seuil 9782021346138
10 June – Treaty of Compiègne is signed between the Kingdom of France and the Dutch Republic.
13 August – Cardinal Richelieu is appointed by Louis XIII to be his chief minister, having intrigued against Charles de La Vieuville, Superintendent of Finances, arrested for corruption the previous day.
3 October – Étienne Ier d'Aligre becomes Grand Chancellor of France.Germain Antoine Guyot Traité des droits Visse Paris 1788 225
21 October – Edict of Saint-Germain-en-Laye establishes a Chamber of Justice for the investigation of financial abuse and embezzlement in government.François-Jacques Chasles Dictionnaire universel, chronologique et historique, de justice, police, et finances 2 Claude Robustel 1725 465
26 November – French troops under the Marquis de Ceuvre set out to occupy the forts of Valtellina.Émile Charvériat Histoire de la guerre de trente ans, 1618–1648: Période palatine et période danoise (1618–1630) 1 Plon 1878 https://archive.org/stream/histoiredelaguer01char#page/350/mode/2up
6–10 December – Treaties with Venice and the Duke of Savoy over Valtellina.
The Palace of Versailles is first built by Louis XIII, as a hunting lodge.
The Parlement passes a decree forbidding criticism of Aristotle, on pain of death.http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/158787/Rene-Descartes/43352/Residence-in-the-Netherlands Rene Descartes Encyclopædia Britannica 2009 October 11, 2009
Congregation of the Mission settles in the Collège des Bons Enfants in Paris.
French colonial empire: Coastal trading settlements established in French Guiana and Senegal.
Births
16 January – Pierre Lambert de la Motte, bishop (died 1679)
21 March – François Roberday, baroque organist and composer (died 1680)
31 March – Antoine Pagi, ecclesiastical historian (died 1699)
11 June – Jean-Baptiste du Hamel, cleric and natural philosopher (died 1706)
22 August – Jean Regnault de Segrais, poet and novelist born (died 1701)
25 August – François de la Chaise, churchman (died 1709)
30 October – Paul Pellisson, historian (died 1693)
3 November – Jean II d'Estrées, noble (died 1707)
28 November – Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d'Andilly, Jansenist nun (died 1684)
Unknown date
Louise de Prie, royal governess (died 1709)
1624 or 1625 – Gaspard Marsy, sculptor (died 1681)
Gabriel Vendages de Malapeire, French aristocrat, parliamentarian and poet (died 1702)
Deaths
31 July – Henry II, Duke of Lorraine, "the Good" (born 1563)
25 September – Fronton du Duc, Jesuit theologian (born 1558)
See also
France History Lists
References
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