Events from the year 1660 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Louis XIV
Events Carib Expulsion: French-led ethnic cleansing removes most of the Carib population of the island of Martinique. Blaise Pascal's Lettres provinciales, a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, is ordered by the king to be shredded and burned.
Births
January – Hippolyte Hélyot, historian (died 1716) 30 November – Victor-Marie d'Estrées, Marshal of France (died 1737) 4 December (bapt.) – André Campra, composer and conductor (died 1744)
Deaths 10 June – Étienne de Flacourt, governor of Madagascar, drowned at sea (born 1607) 5 November – Alexandre de Rhodes, Jesuit missionary (born 1591) 1 December – Pierre d'Hozier, genealogist (born 1592) 3 December – Jacques Sarazin, sculptor (born 1588/90)
Full date unknown Jean Boulanger, painter (born 1606) Jean-Jacques Chifflet, physician and antiquary (born 1588) Richard Tassel, religious painter (born 1582) Christophe Tassin, cartographer (born early 1600s)
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