Events from the year 1640 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Louis XIII
Events
Introduction of the Louis d'or The Battle of Cádiz
Births 9 March Jacques d'Agar, portrait painter (died 1715)
Full date missing Étienne Chauvin, Protestant divine (died 1725) Marguerite de la Sablière, salonist and polymath (died 1693)
Deaths 30 May – André Duchesne, historian and geographer (born 1584)
Full date missing Claude de Bullion, aristocrat and politician (born 1569) John Francis Regis, priest (born 1597) Isaac Manasses de Pas, Marquis de Feuquieres, soldier (born 1590)
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