1655 in France
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Events from the year 1655 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- The French army under Turenne took Landrecies after a siege in 14 July, and the towns of Condé and Saint-Ghislain, on 18 and 25 August.[2]
Births
- 14 February â Jacques-Nicolas Colbert, churchman (died 1707)
- 30 September â Charles III, Prince of Guéméné, nobleman (died 1727)
- 4 October â Lothar Franz von Schönborn, archbishop (died 1729)
Deaths
- 27 February â Henri Chabot, nobleman (born 1616)
- 6 April â David Blondel, clergyman, historian and classical scholar (born 1591)
- 28 July â Cyrano de Bergerac, novelist and playwright, (born 1619)[2]
- 7 September â François Tristan l'Hermite, dramatist (born c.1601)
- 24 October â Pierre Gassendi, philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer and mathematician (born 1592)
