1672 in France

Events from the year 1672 in France

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See also:	Other events of 1672 History of France  • Timeline  • Years

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XIV^[1]

Events

Painting of the capture of Coevorden by Dutch troops in December 1672

• 1672 to 1678 – the Franco-Dutch War

Births

Full date missing

• Antoine Augustin Calmet, Benedictine monk (died 1757)^[2]

Deaths

• February 17 – Madeleine Béjart, French actress and theatre director (b. 1618)

Full date missing

• Jacques Rohault, philosopher, physicist and mathematician (born 1618)
• Pierre Séguier, statesman (born 1588)^[3]
• Denis Gaultier, lutenist and composer (born c.1600)
• Tanneguy Le Fèvre, scholar (born 1615)
• Thomas Gobert, priest and composer (born c.1600)
• Antoine Godeau, bishop, poet and exegete (born 1605)

See also