1660 in France
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Events from the year 1660 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- Carib Expulsion: French-led ethnic cleansing removes most of the Carib population of the island of Martinique.
- Blaise Pascal's Lettres provinciales, a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, is ordered by the king to be shredded and burned.
Births
- January â Hippolyte Hélyot, historian (died 1716)
- 30 November â Victor-Marie d'Estrées, Marshal of France (died 1737)
- 4 December (bapt.) â André Campra, composer and conductor (died 1744)[2]
Deaths
- 10 June â Ãtienne de Flacourt, governor of Madagascar, drowned at sea (born 1607)
- 5 November â Alexandre de Rhodes, Jesuit missionary (born 1591)[3]
- 1 December â Pierre d'Hozier, genealogist (born 1592)
- 3 December â Jacques Sarazin, sculptor (born 1588/90)
Full date unknown
- Jean Boulanger, painter (born 1606)
- Jean-Jacques Chifflet, physician and antiquary (born 1588)
- Richard Tassel, religious painter (born 1582)
- Christophe Tassin, cartographer (born early 1600s)
