Events from the year 1645 in
France
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Incumbents
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Monarch
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Louis XIV
, house = Bourbon
, father = Louis XIII
, mother = Anne of Austria
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
, death_date =
, death_place = Palace of Vers ...
*Regent:
Anne of Austria
Anne of Austria (french: Anne d'Autriche, italic=no, es, Ana María Mauricia, italic=no; 22 September 1601 – 20 January 1666) was an infanta of Spain who became Queen of France as the wife of King Louis XIII from their marriage in 1615 unti ...
Events
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Charenton established
*Francois Morneau married Marie Mornet - 1645
Births
*16 August –
Jean de La Bruyère
Jean de La Bruyère (, , ; 16 August 1645 – 11 May 1696) was a French philosopher and moralist, who was noted for his satire.
Early years
Jean de La Bruyère was born in Paris, in today's Essonne ''département'', in 1645. His family was mid ...
, writer (died
1696
Events
January–March
* January 21 – The Great Recoinage of 1696, Recoinage Act, passed by the Parliament of England to pull counterfeit silver coins out of circulation, becomes law.James E. Thorold Rogers, ''The First Nine Y ...
)
*663 Marie Bernard (died 1718)
Full date missing
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François Vachon de Belmont
François Vachon de Belmont (3 April 1645 – 22 May 1732) was the fifth superior of the Montreal Sulpicians from 1700 to 1731. Vachon de Belmont was born in Burgundy, France to a wealthy family. He moved to Canada and personally funded the cons ...
(died 1732)
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François de Troy
François de Troy ( 28 February 1645 – 1 May 1730) was a French painter and engraver who became principal painter to King James II in exile at Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Director of the Académie Royale de peinture et de sculpture.
Early l ...
, painter and engraver (died 1730)
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Jean-Baptiste Théodon
Jean-Baptiste Théodon (1645–1713) was a French sculptor.
Born at Vendrest (Seine-et-Marne), he formed his style working in the Manufacture royale des Gobelins organized by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, who saw to it that he was admitted to the newl ...
, sculptor (died 1713)
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Robert Clicquot
Robert Clicquot (1645–1719) was a French organ builder from Paris. His most notable organs are in the Chapel of the Palace of Versailles, the churches of Saint-Quentin and Saint-Louis des Invalides in Paris and Rouen Cathedral.
Clicquot's desce ...
, organ builder (died 1719)
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Charles Louis Simonneau
Charles Louis Simonneau (baptised 3 August 1645, Orléans – 22 March 1728, Paris), was a French engraver.
Biography
According to Houbraken he made engravings for a series titled "Effigies Raymundi la Fage".[Daniel Montbars
Daniel Montbars (1645–1707?), better known as Montbars the Exterminator, was a 17th-century French buccaneer. For several years, he was known as one of the most violent buccaneers active against the Spanish during the mid-17th century. His reput ...]
, buccaneer (died 1707?)
Deaths
Full date missing
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Jacques Linard
Jacques Linard (1597, Troyes - September 1645, Paris) was a French painter who specialized in still-lifes.
Biography
Linard was baptised on 6 September 1597. His first records of being of artist was in the 1620s. He was married in 1626 to the ...
, painter (born 1597)
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François de La Rochefoucauld, cardinal (born 1558)
See also
References
1640s in France
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