1677 in France

Events from the year 1677 in France.

Incumbents Monarch: Louis XIV

Events January 1 – Jean Racine's tragedy Phèdre is first performed. August – The guild of the Maitresses bouquetieres is founded in Paris. October 29 – Michel le Tellier becomes chancellor of France. November 16 – French troops occupy Freiburg. Jules Hardouin Mansart begins la place Vendôme in Paris (completed in 1698). End of the use of male impotence as a factor in French divorce proceedings. Ice cream becomes popular in Paris. The population of Paris first exceeds 500,000.

Births February 8 – Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (d. 1756) May 4 – Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, youngest daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan, wife of Philippe d'Orléans, le Régent (d.1749)

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