1665 in France explained

Events from the year 1665 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XIV^[1]

Events

• January 5  - The Journal des sçavans begins publication, the world's first scientific journal.
• October 21  - 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 Réunion begins with the French East India Company sending twenty settlers.

Arts and literature

• February 15  - Molière's comedy Dom Juan is first presented, at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré) in Paris, in its original prose version with the playwright playing Sganarelle; it is withdrawn after 15 performances following attacks on its morality.
• April - November  - Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini is fêted in Paris.
• April 17  - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy (elected this year to the Académie française), 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  - Molière's L'Amour médecin is first presented, before Louis XIV of France at the Palace of Versailles with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully.
• December 4  - Jean Racine's tragedy Alexandre le Grand is premièred by Molière's troupe at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré) in Paris. 11 days later, Racine moves it to the Comédiens du Roi at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, causing a rift with Molière.
• Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers publishes Livre d'orgue contenant cent pièces de tous les tons de l'église, 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.

Births

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

Deaths

• January 11  - Louise de La Fayette, courtier, friend of King Louis XIII (b. 1618)
• January 12  - Pierre de Fermat, mathematician (b. 1601)
• January 29  - Jeanne des Anges, Ursuline nun in Loudun (b. 1602)
• April 21  - Jean-Joseph Surin, Jesuit writer (b. 1600)
• July 28  - Louis Giry, lawyer and classical scholar (b. 1596)
• October 22  - César, Duke of Vendôme, nobleman (b. 1594)
• November 19  - Nicolas Poussin, painter (b. 1594)
• November 24  - Simon Le Moyne, missionary (b. 1604)
• December 2  - Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, socialite (b. 1588)

Notes and References

1. Web site: BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715) . www.bbc.co.uk . 9 June 2022.
2. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bfouquet.html "Bishop Jean François Fouquet, S.J."
3. Book: Hopkins Porter, Cecelia. Five Lives in Music: Women Performers, Composers, and Impresarios from the Baroque to the Present. Urbana. University of Illinois Press. 2014. 978-0-25208-009-8. 53.