1673 in France

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Events from the year 1673 in France

Incumbents[]

  • MonarchLouis XIV

Events[]

  • 17 May – Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette joins Louis Jolliet on his expedition to explore the northern Mississippi River.
  • 7 June – First Battle of Schooneveld: In a sea battle of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, fought off the Netherlands coast, the Dutch Republic fleet (commanded by Michiel de Ruyter) defeats the allied Anglo-French fleet, commanded by Prince Rupert of the Rhine.
  • 14 June – The Dutch fleet again defeats the combined Anglo-French fleet in the Second Battle of Schooneveld.
  • 6 July – French troops conquer Maastricht.
  • 21 August – Battle of Texel: The Dutch fleet (under de Ruyter) again defeats the combined Anglo-French fleet.
  • 30 August – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, Spain, Netherlands and the Lutherans form an anti-French covenant.
  • France begins its expedition against Ceylon.

Arts and literature[]

  • 10 February – The première of Molière's comédie-ballet The Imaginary Invalid (Le malade imaginaire) takes place in Paris. During the fourth performance, the playwright, playing the title rôle, collapses on stage, dying soon after.[1]
  • 27 April? – Jean-Baptiste Lully's first opera, Cadmus et Hermione, is premièred.

Births[]

Marthe-Marguerite Le Valois de Villette de Mursay, marquise de Caylus
  • Marquise de Caylus, noblewoman (died 1729)[2]

Deaths[]

  • 17 February – Molière, playwright and actor (born 1622)
  • 10 March – Henriette de Coligny de La Suze, writer (born 1618)
  • 18 June – Jeanne Mance, nurse (born 1606)
  • 29 November – Armand de Gramont, Comte de Guiche, nobleman (born 1637)
  • 6 December – Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan, cartographer (born c.1600)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "The Imaginary Invalid". The Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  2. ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1916). "Caylus, Marthe Marguerite de Villette". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 4 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
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