1635 in France
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Events from the year 1635 in France.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Louis XIII[1]
Events
- February 22 â The Académie française in Paris is formally constituted as the national academy for the preservation of the French language.[2]
- May â France declares war on Spain.
- May 30 â Thirty Years' War â The Peace of Prague is signed, which ends the German civil war aspect of the conflict.
- Guadeloupe and Martinique are colonized by France.
- Dominica is claimed by France.
Births
- June 3 â Philippe Quinault, French writer (d. 1688)
- July 19 â Francine Descartes (d. 1640)
- July 23 â Adam Dollard des Ormeaux (d. 1660)
- October 7 â Roger de Piles, French painter (d. 1709)
- November 27 â Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV (d. 1719)
Deaths
- December 25 â Samuel de Champlain, French explorer and founder of Quebec (b. c.1567)
