1646 in France
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Events from the year 1646 in France.
Incumbents
- Monarch â Louis XIV[1]
- Regent: Anne of Austria[2]
Events
- 10 October â France takes Dunkirk from the Spanish Netherlands for the first time.
Births
- 17 February â Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, lawmaker (died 1714)[3]
- 10 October â Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné, aristocrat (died 1705)
Deaths
- 12 May â Ãnemond Massé, Jesuit missionary (born 1575)
- 14 June â Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé, admiral (born 1619)
- 22 June â Daniel Dumonstier, artist (born 1574)
- 27 June â Achille d'Ãtampes de Valençay, military leader and Catholic Cardinal (born 1593)
- 22 September â Jean François Niceron, mathematician (born 1613)
- 23 December â François Maynard, poet (born 1582)
