1667 in France explained

Events from the year 1667 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch  - Louis XIV^[1]

Events

• March  - Louis XIV abolishes the livre parisis (Paris pound), in favor of the much more widely used livre tournois (Tours pound). He also designates Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie as the first chief of police of Paris.
• 24 May  - The War of Devolution begins: France invades Flanders and Franche-Comté; on 10 August the siege of Lille, the war's only main engagement, begins, ending in a French victory.
• 26 June  - Louis XIV conquers Tournai.
• 31 July  - The Treaty of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War and recognizes Acadia as a French possession.^{[2] [3]}

Births

• 2 November  - James Louis Sobieski, Prince of Poland (died 1737)

Full date missing

• Nicolas Bertin, painter (died 1736)^[4]

Deaths

• 16 or 17 March  - Philippe Labbe, Jesuit writer on historical, geographical and philological issues (born 1607)
• 16 May  - Samuel Bochart, biblical scholar (born 1599)

Notes and References

1. Web site: BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715) . www.bbc.co.uk . 9 June 2022.
2. Web site: Dutch Raid on the Medway, 19–24 June 1667 . Military History Encyclopedia on the Web . 2012-08-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110909055834/http://historyofwar.org/articles/battles_medway_1667.html . 2011-09-09.
3. Book: Cates, William L. R.. The Pocket Date Book. London. Chapman and Hall. William Leist Readwin Cates. 1863.
4. Encyclopedia: Bertin, Nicolas . 90 . . 3 . 1915 . 2 . Blangstrup, Chr. . Christian Blangstrup . J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel . Copenhagen . da . 25 August 2015 .