1618 in France
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Events from the year 1618 in France.
Incumbents
- Monarch â Louis XIII[1]
Events
- Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, begins remodelling the Paris residence which becomes the Hôtel de Rambouillet to form a literary salon.
Births
- January 8 â Madeleine Béjart, actress and theatre director (d. 1672)
Full date missing
- Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, memoirist (died 1693)[2]
- François Blondel, architect (died 1686)
- Lambert Closse, merchant (died 1662)
- Médard des Groseilliers, explorer and fur trader (died 1696)
- Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne, diplomat and minister (died 1699)
Deaths
Full date missing
- Jacques Davy Duperron, cardinal (born 1556)
- François de Boivin, chronicler
