Events from the year 1679 in
France
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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 ...
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Louis XIV
, house = Bourbon
, father = Louis XIII
, mother = Anne of Austria
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, birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
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, death_place = Palace of Vers ...
Events
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Treaties of Nijmegen
The Treaties of Peace of Nijmegen ('; german: Friede von Nimwegen) were a series of treaties signed in the Dutch city of Nijmegen between August 1678 and October 1679. The treaties ended various interconnected wars among France, the Dutch Republi ...
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Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
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Treaty of Fontainebleau
Births
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Dominique Anel, surgeon (died 1730)
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George Psalmanazar
George Psalmanazar ( 1679 – 3 May 1763) was a Frenchman who claimed to be the first native of Formosa (today Taiwan) to visit Europe. For some years he convinced many in Britain, but he was eventually revealed to be of European origins. He sub ...
, imposter and writer (died 1763)
Deaths
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Marie de Rohan
Marie Aimée de Rohan (December 1600 – 12 August 1679) was a French courtier and political activist, famed for being the center of many of the intrigues of the first half of the 17th century in France. In various sources, she is often known ...
, aristocrat (born 1600)
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Jacques Cassagne
Jacques Cassagne or Jacques de Cassaigne (1 January 1636, Nîmes – 19 May 1679, Paris) was a French clergyman, poet, and moralist.
Biography
A doctor of theology, he was 'garde' of the king's library and entered the Académie française aged 29. ...
, clergyman and poet (born 1636)
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Jacques de Billy
: ''For the English patristic scholar and Benedictine abbot, see Jacques de Billy (abbot) (1535–1581).''
Jacques de Billy (March 18, 1602 – January 14, 1679) was a French Jesuit mathematician. Born in Compiègne, he subsequently entere ...
, mathematician (born 1602)
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Pierre Lambert de la Motte
Pierre Lambert de la Motte, MEP (16 January 1624 – 15 January 1679) was a French bishop. He was a founding member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society and became a missionary in Asia.
Biography
Lambert de la Motte was born 16 January 1624 in ...
, bishop (born 1624)
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Guillaume Courtois
Guillaume Courtois or italianized as Guglielmo Cortese, called Il Borgognone or Le Bourguignon ('the Burgundian'), (1628 – 14 or 15 June 1679[Raymond Breton Raymond Breton, OP ( Baune, 3 September 1609 – Caen, 8 January 1679) was a French Dominican missionary and linguist among the Caribbean Indians, and in particular the Garifuna
The Garifuna people ( or ; pl. Garínagu in Garifuna) are ...]
, Dominican missionary and linguist (born 1609)
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François Combefis
François Combefis (or Combefisius) (November 1605 – 23 March 1679) was a French Dominican patrologist. He published previously unedited works by Saint John Chrysostom.
Life
He was born at Marmande, made his preliminary studies in the Jes ...
, Dominican patrologist (born 1605)
See also
References
1670s in France
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