Events from the year 1618 in France.

Incumbents Monarch – Louis XIII

Events Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, begins remodelling the Paris residence which becomes the Hôtel de Rambouillet to form a literary salon.

Births

January 8 – Madeleine Béjart, actress and theatre director (d. 1672)

Full date missing Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, memoirist (died 1693) François Blondel, architect (died 1686) Lambert Closse, merchant (died 1662) Médard des Groseilliers, explorer and fur trader (died 1696) Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne, diplomat and minister (died 1699)

Deaths

Full date missing Jacques Davy Duperron, cardinal (born 1556) François de Boivin, chronicler

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