Events from the year 1684 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Louis XIV
Events 15 August – Signing of the Truce of Ratisbon The Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, designed by Jules Hardouin Mansart, is completed The Château de Marly in the Marly-le-Roi commune is completed for Louis XIV The Canal de l'Eure with its notable aqueduct, designed by the military engineer Lieutenant Général Vauban to serve Versailles for Louis XIV, is begun; work is abandoned about 1690
Births
Full date unknown Jean Astruc, physician and professor (died 1766)
Deaths
Full date unknown Anne de La Vigne, natural philosopher (born 1634) Claude Bazin de Bezons, lawyer and politician (born 1617) Marguerite, Duchess of Rohan, noblewoman (born 1617) Pierre Corneille, playwright (born 1606) François Pallu, bishop (born 1626) Peter du Moulin, clergyman (born 1601) Antoine Gombaud, writer (born 1607) Edme Mariotte, physicist (born c.1620) Gabriel de Guilleragues, politician (born 1628)
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