1663 in France explained

Events from the year 1663 in France

Incumbents

16 March – Jean-Baptiste Matho, composer (d 1743)
25 March – Félix Le Pelletier de La Houssaye, statesman (d. 1723)
2 June – Anne-Marguerite Petit du Noyer, journalist (d. 1719)
24 June – Jean Baptiste Massillon, Roman Catholic bishop and famous preacher (d. 1742)^[2]
26 July – Louis Carré, mathematician (d. 1711)
5 August – Charles-Armand de Gontaut, duc de Biron, military leader (d. 1756)
31 August – Guillaume Amontons, scientific instrument inventor and physicist (d. 1705)
1 September – Jean Boivin the Younger, writer, scholar and translator (d. 1726)
20 September – Louis-François Duplessis de Mornay, prelate (d. 1741)
18 October – Prince Eugene of Savoy, military commander (d. 1736)
14 December – Jean de Forcade de Biaix (d. 1729)

Jacques Adam, translator (d. 1735)
Louis Deseschaliers, actor
Jean-Baptiste Labat, clergyman, botanist, writer, explorer, ethnographer, soldier, engineer and landowner (d. 1738)
Louis Laguerre, painter (d. 1721)
Louis Le Pelletier, linguist (d. 1733)
Raveneau de Lussan, buccaneer^[3]
Pierre-Denis Martin, painter (d. 1742)

11 may – Henri II d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville (b. 1595)
5 June – Béatrix de Cusance, baroness (b. 1614)
20 June – Catherine Henriette de Bourbon, Légitimée de France, Duchess of Elbeuf (b. 1596)
31 October – Théophile Raynaud, Jesuit theologian and writer (b. 1583)
27 December – Christine of France, Duchess of Savoy (b. 1606)

Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède, novelist and dramatist (b. 1609 or 1610)
Claude de Bourdeille, comte de Montrésor, aristocrat and Count of Montrésor (born c. 1606)

Web site: BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715) . www.bbc.co.uk . 9 June 2022.
Web site: Jean-Baptiste Massillon (1663-1742) . https://web.archive.org/web/20090214072309/http://www.academie-francaise.fr/Immortels/base/academiciens/fiche.asp?param=157 . dead . 14 February 2009 . academie-francaise.fr . 23 April 2019 .
Lussan, Raveneau de. 1900.