1678 in France
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Incumbents
Events
- 23 July â The Battle of Ortenbach, part of the Franco-Dutch War
- 14 August â The Battle of Saint-Denis, the last major action of the Franco-Dutch War
- August 1678 to December 1679 â The Treaties of Nijmegen, in the aftermath of the Franco-Dutch War of 1672â78
Births
- 25 August â Jacques Caffieri, sculptor (d. 1755)
Full date unknown
- Augustin Lippi, botanist and physician (d. 1675)
Deaths
- 16 January Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé, writer and salonnière (b. 1599)
- 4 June â Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, noblewoman and Princess of Monaco (b. 1639)
Full date unknown
- Jacques de Chevanes, polemicist (b. ca. 1608)
- Robert Desgabets, Cartesian philosopher and Benedictine prior (b. 1610)[2]
- Gilles Guérin, sculptor (b. 1611)
