1660 in France
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Events from the year 1660 in France
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- Carib Expulsion: French-led ethnic cleansing removes most of the Carib population of the island of Martinique.
- Blaise Pascal's Lettres provinciales, a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, is ordered by the king to be shredded and burned.
Births
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- January – Hippolyte Hélyot, historian (died 1716)
- 30 November – Victor-Marie d'Estrées, Marshal of France (died 1737)
- 4 December (bapt.) – André Campra, composer and conductor (died 1744)[2]
Deaths
[edit]- 10 June – Étienne de Flacourt, governor of Madagascar, drowned at sea (born 1607)
- 5 November – Alexandre de Rhodes, Jesuit missionary (born 1591)[3]
- 1 December – Pierre d'Hozier, genealogist (born 1592)
- 3 December – Jacques Sarazin, sculptor (born 1588/90)
Full date missing
[edit]- Jean Boulanger, painter (born 1606)
- Jean-Jacques Chifflet, physician and antiquary (born 1588)
- Richard Tassel, religious painter (born 1582)
- Christophe Tassin, cartographer (born early 1600s)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715)". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
- ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1916). "Campra, André". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 4 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
- ^ Weber, Nicholas (1912). "Alexandre De Rhodes". The Catholic Encyclopedia. Retrieved 4 February 2016.