1664 in France
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Events from the year 1664 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- French West India Company established
- Kronenbourg Brewery established in Strasbourg
Births
- 5 April â Ãlisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine, noblewoman (died 1748)
- 22 May â François Blouet de Camilly, clergyman (died 1723)
- 16 July â Philippe Charles, Duke of Valois, prince (died 1666)
- 31 August â Paul Lucas, merchant, naturalist, physician and antiquarian (died 1737)
Deaths
- 8 January â Moses Amyraut, Protestant theologian and metaphysician (born 1596)[2]
- 17 November â Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt, translator (born 1606)
Full date unknown
- Michel Corneille the Elder, painter (born c.1601)
- Charles Racquet, organist and composer (born 1597)
- Antoine Singlin, Jansenist Catholic priest (born 1607)
- David Derodon, Calvinist theologian and philosopher (born c.1600)
See also
- Kronenbourg 1664, a beer
