Events from the year 1649 in
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...
Incumbents
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Monarch
A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority and power i ...
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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 Ver ...
*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 un ...
Events
*11 March – signing of the
Peace of Rueil
Births
*22 February –
Bon Boullogne, painter (died 1717)
*5 September –
Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth
Louise Renée de Penancoët de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth (5 September 1649 – 14 November 1734) was a mistress of Charles II of England.
Early life
Louise was the daughter of Guillaume de Penancoët, Seigneur de Kéroualle (d. 1690) ...
, mistress of Charles II of England (died 1734)
Deaths
*24 April –
Gaston Jean Baptiste de Renty
Gaston Jean Baptiste de Renty (born 1611 at the castle of Beni, Diocese of Bayeux in Normandy; died 24 April 1649) was a French aristocrat and philanthropist. He ruled the Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement (Company of the Blessed Sacrament) between 16 ...
, aristocrat and philanthropist (born 1611)
*30 June –
Simon Vouet
Simon Vouet (; 9 January 1590 – 30 June 1649) was a French painter who studied and rose to prominence in Italy before being summoned by Louis XIII to serve as Premier peintre du Roi in France. He and his studio of artists created religious and ...
, painter and draftsman (born 1590)
*30 October –
Honoré d'Albert, duke (born 1581)
*Full date missing
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Jean Sirmond, poet and historiographer (born 1589)
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Christophe Justel, scholar (born 1580)
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François Véron
François Véron (Paris, ''circa'' 1575 – Charenton, 1649) was a French Jesuit controversialist.
Life
After studying under the Society of Jesuits, he joined them, and taught in several colleges. To devote himself more freely to preaching ...
, Jesuit controversialist (born c.1575)
See also
References
1640s in France
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