• Source: 1660 in France

      • Events from the year 1660 in France


      Incumbents


      Monarch – Louis XIV


      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)


      Deaths


      10 June – Étienne de Flacourt, governor of Madagascar, drowned at sea (born 1607)
      5 November – Alexandre de Rhodes, Jesuit missionary (born 1591)
      1 December – Pierre d'Hozier, genealogist (born 1592)
      3 December – Jacques Sarazin, sculptor (born 1588/90)


      = Full date missing

      =
      Jean Boulanger, painter (born 1606)
      Jean-Jacques Chifflet, physician and antiquary (born 1588)
      Richard Tassel, religious painter (born 1582)
      Christophe Tassin, cartographer (born early 1600s)


      See also




      References

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