1678 in France explained

Events from the year 1678 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XIV^[1]

Events

• 23 July – The Battle of Ortenbach, part of the Franco-Dutch War
• 14 August – The Battle of Saint-Denis, the last major action of the Franco-Dutch War
• August 1678 to December 1679 – The Treaties of Nijmegen, in the aftermath of the Franco-Dutch War of 1672–78

Births

Full date missing

• Jacques Caffieri, sculptor (d. 1755)
• Augustin Lippi, botanist and physician (d. 1675)
• Jacques Talbot, cleric and schoolmaster (d. 1756)^[2]

Deaths

• 16 January Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé, writer and salonnière (b. 1599)
• 4 June – Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, noblewoman and Princess of Monaco (b. 1639)

Full date missing

• Jacques de Chevanes, polemicist (b. ca. 1608)
• Robert Desgabets, Cartesian philosopher and Benedictine prior (b. 1610)^[3]
• Gilles Guérin, sculptor (b. 1611)

Notes and References

1. Web site: BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715) . www.bbc.co.uk . 9 June 2022.
2. Louis-Philippe . Audet . Talbot, Jacques . 3 .
3. Easton, P., "Robert Desgabets" in Zalta, E. N. (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy