1660 in France

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1660
in
France

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Decades:
  • 1640s
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  • 1660s
  • 1670s
  • 1680s
See also:Other events of 1660
History of France  • Timeline  • Years

Events from the year 1660 in France

Incumbents[]

  • MonarchLouis XIV

Events[]

  • Carib Expulsion: French-led ethnic cleansing removes most of the Carib population of the island of Martinique.
  • Blaise Pascal's Lettres provinciales, a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, is ordered by the king to be shredded and burned.

Births[]

Deaths[]

  • 5 November – Alexandre de Rhodes, Jesuit missionary (born 1591)[2]
  • 1 December – Pierre d'Hozier, genealogist (born 1592)
  • 3 December – Jacques Sarazin, sculptor (born 1588/90)

Full date missing[]

  • Christophe Tassin, cartographer (born early 1600s)
  • Jean Boulanger, painter (born 1606)
  • Étienne de Flacourt, governor of Madagascar (born 1607)
  • Richard Tassel, painter (born 1582)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1916). "Campra, André". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 4 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  2. ^ Weber, Nicholas (1912). "Alexandre De Rhodes". The Catholic Encyclopedia. Retrieved 4 February 2016.


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