Events from the year 1655 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Louis XIV
Events The French army under Turenne took Landrecies after a siege in 14 July, and the towns of Condé and Saint-Ghislain, on 18 and 25 August.
Births 14 February – Jacques-Nicolas Colbert, churchman (died 1707) 30 September – Charles III, Prince of Guéméné, nobleman (died 1727) 4 October – Lothar Franz von Schönborn, archbishop (died 1729)
Deaths
27 February – Henri Chabot, nobleman (born 1616) 6 April – David Blondel, clergyman, historian and classical scholar (born 1591) 28 July – Cyrano de Bergerac, novelist and playwright, (born 1619)Israel, Johnathan Irvine (1997). Conflicts of Empires: Spain, the Low Countries and the struggle for World Supremacy 1585-1713. Hambledon. . 7 September – François Tristan l'Hermite, dramatist (born c.1601) 24 October – Pierre Gassendi, philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer and mathematician (born 1592)
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