1678 in France
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Battle of Saint-Denis by Romeyn de Hooghe.
Events from the year 1678 in France
Incumbents[]
- Monarch – Louis XIV
Events[]
- 23 July – The Battle of Ortenbach, part of the Franco-Dutch War
- 14 August – The Battle of Saint-Denis, the last major action of the Franco-Dutch War
- August 1678 to December 1679 – The Treaties of Nijmegen, in the aftermath of the Franco-Dutch War of 1672–78
Births[]
Full date missing[]
- Jacques Caffieri, sculptor (d. 1755)
- Augustin Lippi, botanist and physician (d. 1675)
- Jacques Talbot, cleric and schoolmaster (d. 1756).[1]
Deaths[]
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Catherine Charlotte de Gramont
- 16 January Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé, writer and salonnière (b. 1599)
- 4 June – Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, noblewoman and Princess of Monaco (b. 1639)
Full date missing[]
- Jacques de Chevanes, polemicist (b. ca. 1608)
- Robert Desgabets, Cartesian philosopher and Benedictine prior (b. 1610).[2]
- Gilles Guérin, sculptor (b. 1611)
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Audet, Louis-Philippe (1974). "Talbot, Jacques". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. III (1741–1770) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
- ^ Easton, P., "Robert Desgabets" in Zalta, E. N. (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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