Events from the year 1688 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Louis XIV
Events
January 29 – Madame Jeanne Guyon, French mystic, is arrested in France and imprisoned for seven months. February 28 – The French opera David et Jonathas, composed by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, is performed for the first time. May 17 - Louis-Hector de Callière, Governor of Montreal proposes to Louis XIV to invade New England by land and sea. The attack began in 1690. December 11 – Having led his army to Salisbury and been deserted by his troops, James VII and II attempts to flee to France.
Births
29 April - Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder, engraver (died 1754) 29 October - Jacques Chereau, engraver and printmaker (died 1776
Deaths
2 February - Abraham Duquesne, naval officer (born 1610) 14 May - Antoine Furetière, writer (born 1619) 9 September - Claude Mellan, engraver and painter (born 1598) 9 October - Claude Perraut, architect (born 1613) 26 November - Philippe Quinault, librettist and dramatist (born 1635) Unknown - Nicolas Denys, aristocrat, explorer, colonizer and soldier in New France (born 1598?)
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