1678 in France

Events from the year 1678 in France.

Incumbents Monarch – Louis XIV

Events

23 July – The Battle of Ortenbach, part of the Franco-Dutch War 14 August – The Battle of Saint-Denis, the last major action of the Franco-Dutch War August 1678 to December 1679 – The Treaties of Nijmegen, in the aftermath of the Franco-Dutch War of 1672–78

Births

25 August – Jacques Caffieri, sculptor (d. 1755)

Full date unknown

Augustin Lippi, botanist and physician (d. 1675)

Deaths

16 January Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé, writer and salonnière (b. 1599) 4 June – Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, noblewoman and Princess of Monaco (b. 1639)

Full date unknown Jacques de Chevanes, polemicist (b. ca. 1608) Robert Desgabets, Cartesian philosopher and Benedictine prior (b. 1610)Easton, P., "Robert Desgabets" in Zalta, E. N. (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Gilles Guérin, sculptor (b. 1611)

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