1660 in France explained

Events from the year 1660 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch  - Louis XIV^[1]

Events

• Carib Expulsion

French-led ethnic cleansing removes most of the Carib population of the island of Martinique.

• Blaise Pascal's Lettres provinciales, a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, is ordered by the king to be shredded and burned.

Births

• January  - Hippolyte Hélyot, historian (died 1716)
• 30 November  - Victor-Marie d'Estrées, Marshal of France (died 1737)
• 4 December (bapt.)  - André Campra, composer and conductor (died 1744)^[2]

Deaths

• 5 November  - Alexandre de Rhodes, Jesuit missionary (born 1591)^[3]
• 1 December  - Pierre d'Hozier, genealogist (born 1592)
• 3 December  - Jacques Sarazin, sculptor (born 1588/90)

Full date missing

• Christophe Tassin, cartographer (born early 1600s)
• Jean Boulanger, painter (born 1606)
• Étienne de Flacourt, governor of Madagascar (born 1607)
• Richard Tassel, painter (born 1582)

Notes and References

1. Web site: BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715) . www.bbc.co.uk . 9 June 2022.
2. Encyclopedia: Campra, André . . 4 . 1916 . 2 . Blangstrup, Chr. . Christian Blangstrup . J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel . Copenhagen . da . 12 September 2015 .
3. Encyclopedia: Alexandre De Rhodes . Weber . Nicholas. 1912. . 4 February 2016.