Events from the year 1666 in
France
Incumbents
*
Monarch –
Louis XIV
Events
*13 January – French traveller
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier arrives in
Dhaka, and meets
Shaista Khan.
*4 June –
Molière's comedy ''
The Misanthrope'' is premièred at the
Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris, by the King's Players.
*22 December – The
French Academy of Sciences
The French Academy of Sciences (French: ''Académie des sciences'') is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV of France, Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French Scientific me ...
, founded by the king, first meets.
*The
Institution libre du Sacré-Cœur at
Tourcoing is founded.
Births
*15 February –
Claude-Élisée de Court de La Bruyère Claude-Élisée de Court de La Bruyère (February 15, 1666, Pont-de-Vaux, France – August 19, 1752, Gournay-sur-Marne), was a French officer in the French Navy during the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV, who ended his career as Vice Admiral of th ...
, naval officer (d. 1752)
*18 June –
Jeanne Delanoue, saint in the
Roman Catholic Church (d. 1736)
*2 October –
Marie Anne de Bourbon
Marie Anne de Bourbon, ''Légitimée de France','' born Marie Anne de La Blaume Le Blanc, by her marriage Princess of Conti then Princess Dowager of Conti, ''suo jure'' Duchess of La Vallière and of Vaujours (2 October 1666 – 3 May 1739) ...
, Légitimée de France,
Duchess of La Vallière (d. 1739)
Full date missing
*
Léopold Durand, architect (d. 1746)
*
Jean d'Estrées, priest and politician (d. 1718)
*
Philippe Grandjean, type engraver (d. 1714)
Deaths
*16 February –
Jean de Lauson, governor (b. 1584)
*26 February –
Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, nobleman (b. 1629)
*23 September –
François Mansart, architect (b. 1598)
*23 September –
Hannibal Sehested, Dano-Norwegian statesman and diplomat (b. 1609)
*3 November –
Henri-Auguste de Loménie, comte de Brienne
Henri-Auguste de Loménie (1594 – 3 November 1666), Count of Brienne, Seigneur de La Ville-aux-Clercs was a French politician. He was secretary of state for the navy from 1615 to February 1643, and then secretary of state for foreign affairs ...
, politician (b. 1594)
Full date missing
*
Louis de La Forge, philosopher (b. 1632)
See also
References
1660s in France
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