1688 in France
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Events from the year 1688 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- January 29 â Madame Jeanne Guyon, French mystic, is arrested in France and imprisoned for seven months.
- February 28 â The French opera David et Jonathas, composed by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, is performed for the first time.
- May 17 - Louis-Hector de Callière, Governor of Montreal proposes to Louis XIV to invade New England by land and sea. The attack began in 1690.
- December 11 â Having led his army to Salisbury and been deserted by his troops, James VII and II attempts to flee to France.
Births
- 29 April - Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder, engraver (died 1754)[2]
- 29 October - Jacques Chereau, engraver and printmaker (died 1776
Deaths
- 2 February - Abraham Duquesne, naval officer (born 1610)
- 14 May - Antoine Furetière, writer (born 1619)
- 9 September - Claude Mellan, engraver and painter (born 1598)
- 9 October - Claude Perraut, architect (born 1613)
- 26 November - Philippe Quinault, librettist and dramatist (born 1635)
- Unknown - Nicolas Denys, aristocrat, explorer, colonizer and soldier in New France (born 1598?)
