1662 in France

Events from the year 1662 in France.

Incumbents Monarch: Louis XIV

Events

March 18 – Carrosses à cinq sols - A short-lived experiment of the first public buses (holding 8 passengers) begins in Paris. October 27 – Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for £400,000 (or 2.5 million livres). December 26 – Molière's play The School for Wives premieres.

Births

January 17 – Françoise Pitel, French actor (d. 1721) April 26 – Marie Louise of Orléans (d. 1689) July 1 – Béatrice Hiéronyme de Lorraine, Abbess of Remiremont (d. 1738) September 1 – Louis de Carrières, French priest and Bible commentator (d. 1717) September 19 – Jean-Paul Bignon, French priest and man of letters (d. 1743) November 18 – Princess Anne Élisabeth of France (d. 1662)

Deaths

March 20 – François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (b. 1592)

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