1663 in France
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Events from the year 1663 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres is founded
- Construction of the Church of Saint-Just, Lyon is completed
- The Prix de Rome scholarship is established for students of the arts
Births
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- 16 March â Jean-Baptiste Matho, composer (d 1743)
- 25 March â Félix Le Pelletier de La Houssaye, statesman (d. 1723)
- 2 June â Anne-Marguerite Petit du Noyer, journalist (d. 1719)
- 24 June â Jean Baptiste Massillon, Roman Catholic bishop and famous preacher (d. 1742)[2]
- 26 July â Louis Carré, mathematician (d. 1711)
- 5 August â Charles-Armand de Gontaut, duc de Biron, military leader (d. 1756)
- 31 August â Guillaume Amontons, scientific instrument inventor and physicist (d. 1705)
- 1 September â Jean Boivin the Younger, writer, scholar and translator (d. 1726)
- 20 September â Louis-François Duplessis de Mornay, prelate (d. 1741)
- 18 October â Prince Eugene of Savoy, military commander (d. 1736)
- 14 December â Jean de Forcade de Biaix (d. 1729)
Full date unknown
- Jacques Adam, translator (d. 1735)
- Louis Deseschaliers, actor
- Jean-Baptiste Labat, clergyman, botanist, writer, explorer, ethnographer, soldier, engineer and landowner (d. 1738)
- Louis Laguerre, painter (d. 1721)
- Louis Le Pelletier, linguist (d. 1733)
- Raveneau de Lussan, buccaneer[3]
- Pierre-Denis Martin, painter (d. 1742)
Deaths
- 11 may â Henri II d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville (b. 1595)
- 5 June â Béatrix de Cusance, baroness (b. 1614)
- 20 June â Catherine Henriette de Bourbon, Légitimée de France, Duchess of Elbeuf (b. 1596)
- 31 October â Théophile Raynaud, Jesuit theologian and writer (b. 1583)
- 27 December â Christine of France, Duchess of Savoy (b. 1606)
Full date unknown
- Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède, novelist and dramatist (b. 1609 or 1610)
- Claude de Bourdeille, comte de Montrésor, aristocrat and Count of Montrésor (born c. 1606)
