1640 in France
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Events from the year 1640 in France.
Incumbents
- Monarch â Louis XIII[1]
Events
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- Introduction of the Louis d'or
- The Battle of Cádiz
Births
- 9 March â Jacques d'Agar, portrait painter (died 1715)
Full date missing
- Ãtienne Chauvin, Protestant divine (died 1725)
- Marguerite de la Sablière, salonist and polymath (died 1693)
Deaths
- 30 May â André Duchesne, historian and geographer (born 1584)[2]
Full date missing
- Claude de Bullion, aristocrat and politician (born 1569)
- John Francis Regis, priest (born 1597)
- Isaac Manasses de Pas, Marquis de Feuquieres, soldier (born 1590)
