1632 in France
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Events from the year 1632 in France.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Louis XIII[1]
Events
- 29 March â The Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
- 23 July â Three hundred colonists for New France depart Dieppe.
- 1 September â A rebellion against French king Louis XIII is crushed at the Battle of Castelnaudary. The leader of the rebellion, Gaston, Duke of Orléans, the brother of Louis XIII, surrenders.
- 9 September â Thirty Years' War â Besieged by Wallenstein at Nuremberg, Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus attempts to break the siege, but is defeated in the Battle of the Alte Veste.
Births
- 1 January â Claude de Choiseul-Francières, a Marshal of France (d. 1711)
- 12 February â Charles Aubert de La Chesnaye, businessman active in Canada (d. 1702)
- 3 May â Catherine of St. Augustine, nun and nurse of New France (d. 1668)
- 10 June â Esprit Fléchier, writer and Bishop of Nîmes (d. 1710)
- 14 June â Jean Gallois, scholar and abbé (d. 1707)
- 13 August â François-Séraphin Régnier-Desmarais, ecclesiastic (d. 1713)
- 20 August â Louis Bourdaloue, Jesuit preacher (d. 1704)[2]
- 12 September (bapt.) â Claude Lefèbvre, painter and engraver (d. 1675)
- 15 September â Comte de Grignan, aristocrat (d. 1714)
Deaths
- 30 October â Henri II de Montmorency, French naval officer and Governor of Languedoc (b. 1595)
