1688 in France
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Events from the year 1688 in France
Incumbents
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
Full date missing
- Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder, engraver (died 1754)[2]
- Jacques Chereau, engraver and printmaker (died 1776)
Deaths
- February 2 - Abraham Duquesne, naval officer (born 1610)
- May 14 - Antoine Furetière, writer (born 1619)
- September 9 - Claude Mellan, engraver and painter (born 1598)
- October 9 - Claude Perraut, architect (born 1613)
- November 26 - Philippe Quinault, librettist and dramatist (born 1635)
- Unknown - Nicolas Denys, aristocrat, explorer, colonizer and soldier in New France (born 1598?)
See also
References
- ^ "BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715)". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
- ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1916). "Cochin, Charles-Nicolas". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 5 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. Retrieved 13 September 2015.