1653 in France

Events from the year 1653 in France.

Incumbents Monarch: Louis XIV

Events 3 February – Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile. Petite post, a system of postage using prepaid labels and post boxes, is introduced in Paris by Jean-Jacques Renouard de Villayer. Madeleine de Scudéry and her friend, the lutenist Mlle Bocquet, launch a salon. Jean-Baptiste Boësset and Jean-Baptiste Lully start their collaboration to produce ballets de cour Blaise Pascal publishes his Traité du triangle arithmétique in which he describes Pascal's triangle; and his Traités de l’équilibre des liqueurs in which he explains Pascal's law.

Births 24 January – Dom Jacques Alexandre, Benedictine (d. 1734) 1 March – Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour, classical scholar (d. 1730) 24 March – Joseph Sauveur, mathematician (d. 1716) 8 May – Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Marshal of France (d. 1734) 10 August – Louis-Guillaume Pécour, dancer and choreographer (d. 1729) 8 October – Michel Baron, actor (d. 1729) 20 October – Charles-François Poerson, painter (d. 1725)

Full date unknown Sébastien Barras, painter and engraver (d. 1703) Jacques-Philippe Ferrand, miniaturist and painter in enamel (d. 1732) Nicolas Fouché, painter (d. 1733)

Deaths 10 July – Gabriel Naudé, librarian and scholar (b. 1600) 26 June – Juliana Morell, Dominican nun and scholar (b. 1594 in Spain) 3 September – Claudius Salmasius, classical scholar (b. 1588) 23 September – Jacques Goar, Hellenist (b. 1601) 26 September – Charles de l'Aubespine, marquis de Châteauneuf, diplomat and government official (b. 1580)

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