1653 in France
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Events from the year 1653 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 3 February â Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile.
- Petite post, a system of postage using prepaid labels and post boxes, is introduced in Paris by Jean-Jacques Renouard de Villayer.
- Madeleine de Scudéry and her friend, the lutenist Mlle Bocquet, launch a salon.
- Jean-Baptiste Boësset and Jean-Baptiste Lully start their collaboration to produce ballets de cour
- Blaise Pascal publishes his Traité du triangle arithmétique in which he describes Pascal's triangle; and his Traités de lâéquilibre des liqueurs in which he explains Pascal's law.
Births
- 24 January â Dom Jacques Alexandre, Benedictine (d. 1734)
- 1 March â Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour, classical scholar (d. 1730)
- 24 March â Joseph Sauveur, mathematician (d. 1716)
- 8 May â Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Marshal of France (d. 1734)
- 10 August â Louis-Guillaume Pécour, dancer and choreographer (d. 1729)
- 8 October â Michel Baron, actor (d. 1729)
- 20 October â Charles-François Poerson, painter (d. 1725)
Full date unknown
- Sébastien Barras, painter and engraver (d. 1703)
- Jacques-Philippe Ferrand, miniaturist and painter in enamel (d. 1732)
- Nicolas Fouché, painter (d. 1733)
Deaths
- 10 July â Gabriel Naudé, librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
- 26 June â Juliana Morell, Dominican nun and scholar (b. 1594 in Spain)
- 3 September â Claudius Salmasius, classical scholar (b. 1588)
- 23 September â Jacques Goar, Hellenist (b. 1601)
- 26 September â Charles de l'Aubespine, marquis de Châteauneuf, diplomat and government official (b. 1580)
