1665 in France

Events from the year 1665 in France.

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Incumbents

January 5 â The Journal des sÃ§avans begins publication, the world's first scientific journal.
October 21 â Manufacture royale de glaces de miroirs (Royal Mirror-Glass Factory, a predecessor of Saint-Gobain), is established by royal letters patent issued by Jean-Baptiste Colbert in Paris.
Colonisation of RÃ©union begins with the French East India Company sending twenty settlers.

February 15 â MoliÃ¨re's comedy Dom Juan is first presented, at the ThÃ©Ã¢tre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-HonorÃ©) in Paris, in its original prose version with the playwright playing Sganarelle; it is withdrawn after 15 performances following attacks on its morality.
AprilâNovember â Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini is fÃªted in Paris.
April 17 â Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy (elected this year to the AcadÃ©mie franÃ§aise), begins a year's imprisonment in the Bastille for besmirching the reputation of the ladies of the French Court in Histoire amoureuse des Gaules.
September 22 â MoliÃ¨re's L'Amour mÃ©decin is first presented, before Louis XIV at the Palace of Versailles with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully.
December 4 â Jean Racine's tragedy Alexandre le Grand is premiÃ¨red by MoliÃ¨re's troupe at the ThÃ©Ã¢tre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-HonorÃ©) in Paris. 11 days later, Racine moves it to the ComÃ©diens du Roi at the HÃ´tel de Bourgogne, causing a rift with MoliÃ¨re.
Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers publishes Livre d'orgue contenant cent piÃ¨ces de tous les tons de l'Ã©glise, the first organ collection that featured forms that became standard for the Baroque French organ school.
Claude Perrault begins work on the eastern wing of the Louvre.

March 12 â Jean-FranÃ§ois Foucquet, Jesuit prelate, missionary and scientist (d. 1741)^[2]
March 17 â Ãlisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, harpsichordist and composer (d. 1729)^[3]
April 19 â Jacques Lelong, bibliographer (d. 1721).