Events from the year 1651 in
France
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Incumbents
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Monarch
A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority ...
–
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 MarÃa 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 ...
(until 7 September)
Events
*The
Lycée Stendhal
The lycée Stendhal, formerly Cité scolaire Stendhal, is a secondary and higher education establishment in Grenoble. It is the oldest lycée in Grenoble, and its pupils have included Stendhal (after whom it is now named) and Champollion. I ...
was founded
*
Château de Maisons
The Château de Maisons (now Château de Maisons-Laffitte), designed by François Mansart from 1630 to 1651, is a prime example of French baroque architecture and a reference point in the history of French architecture. The château is located in M ...
was completed
Births
*26 February –
Jean Beausire
Jean Beausire (26 February 1651 - 20 March 1743) was an architect, engineer and fountain-maker and the chief of public works in Paris for King Louis XIV of France and King Louis XV of France between 1684 and 1740, and was the architect of all t ...
, architect, engineer and fountain-maker (d. 1743)
*30 April –
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle () (; 30 April 1651 – 7 April 1719) was a French priest, educational reformer, and founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. He is a saint of the Catholic Church and the patron saint for t ...
, priest and educational reformer (d. 1719)
*27 May –
Louis Antoine de Noailles
Louis-Antoine de Noailles (27 May 16514 May 1729), second son of Anne, 1st duc de Noailles, was a French bishop and cardinal. His signing of the Unigenitus bull in 1728 would end the formal Jansenist controversy.
Biography
Louis-Antoine de Noai ...
, bishop and cardinal (d. 1729)
*4 July –
Honoratus a Sancta Maria
Honoratus a Sancta Maria (1651–1729) was a French Discalced Carmelite, known as a prolific controversialist. His secular name was Blaise Vauxelles (or Vauxelle, Vauzelle), and he was known also by the French version of his name in religion, Hono ...
, controversialist (d. 1729).
*6 August –
François Fénelon
François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon (), more commonly known as François Fénelon (6 August 1651 – 7 January 1715), was a French Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer. Today, he is remembered mostly as the author of '' Th ...
, Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer (d. 1715)
*1 November –
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay
Jean-Baptiste Antoine Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay (1 November 1651 – 3 November 1690) was a French politician. He was the eldest son of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, nephew of Charles Colbert de Croissy and cousin of Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Torc ...
, politician (d. 1690)
Full date missing
*
Frère Jacques Beaulieu
Frère Jacques Beaulieu, OP (); 1651–1720), also known as Frère Jacques Baulot, was a travelling lithotomist with scant knowledge of anatomy and was also a Dominican friar. Beaulieu performed the frequently deadly procedure in France into the ...
, urologist (d. 1720)
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Magdelaine Chapelain
Magdelaine Chapelain (1651 – June 1724; also spelled Madeleine Chappelain) was a French fortune teller and poisoner. She was a defendant in the famous Affair of the Poisons.
Chapelain was a very successful fortune teller who had secured a ...
, fortune teller and poisoner (d. 1724)
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Jean-François Lalouette
Jean-François Lalouette (1651-1728) was a French composer of the Baroque period (ca. 1600–1750).
Early life
Lalouette (also spelled "Lallouette") had his first musical education in the school choir of St. Eustache in Paris.
He studied violin ...
, composer (d. 1728)
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Jacques-François de Monbeton de Brouillan
Jacques-François de Monbeton de Brouillan (1651, Gascony – September 22, 1705 at Chedabouctou, Acadia) French military officer and Governor of Plaisance ( Placentia), Newfoundland (1689-1701) and Acadia (1701-1705).
Biography
Monbeton de ...
, military officer and governor (d. 1705)
*
Philibert-Emmanuel de Froulay, chevalier de Tessé
Philibert-Emmanuel de Froulay, chevalier de Tessé (1651 – Cremona, 20 August 1701) was baron d'Ambrières and a French army commander, fighting in the Williamite War in Ireland.
Philibert-Emmanuel de Froulay was the younger brother of Renà ...
, army commander (d. 1701)
*
Guy Tachard
Guy Tachard (; 1651 – 1712), also known as Père Tachard, was a French Jesuit missionary and mathematician of the 17th century, who was sent on two occasions to the Kingdom of Siam by Louis XIV. He was born in Marthon, near Angoulême.
In 1 ...
, Jesuit missionary and mathematician (d. 1712)
Deaths
*8 July –
Charlotte des Essarts, noblewoman (b. between 1580 and 1588)
*23 August
Jacques-Philippe Cornut
Jacques-Philippe Cornut or Jacques-Philippe Cornuti or Jacobus Cornutus (19 October 1606 Paris – 23 August 1651) was a French physician and botanist.
He was the author of ''Enchiridion botanicum parisiense'' (''Botanical Manual of Paris''), ...
, physician and botanist (b. 1606)
Full date missing
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Angélique Paulet,
précieuse
Précieuse (; Old French: ''Preciuse'') is the sword of Baligant, the Saracen king in the French epic ''The Song of Roland''.
Baligant allegedly named his sword in response to hearing that Charlemagne's sword
A sword is an edged, bladed wea ...
, singer and lute-playing musician (b. 1592)
*
Catherine Arnauld, religious figure (b. 1590)
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François II de Beauharnais
François II de Beauharnais (died 1651) was a French magistrate. He was seigneur of La Grillière, the first president to the Présidial of Orléans (1598), lieutenant général to the bailliage of Orléans, and a Third Estate député
The chamb ...
, politician
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Jacqueline de Bueil
Jacqueline de Bueil (1588-1651), was a French noblewoman and Mistress (lover), mistress to Henry IV of France in 1604-1608.
Early life
She was born as daughter of Claude :fr:Famille de Bueil, de Bueil, Seigneur de Courcillon (1537-1596) and his w ...
, noblewoman (b. 1588)
See also
References
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