Events from the year 1663 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Louis XIV
Events The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres is founded Construction of the Church of Saint-Just, Lyon is completed The Prix de Rome scholarship is established for students of the arts
Births
16 March – Jean-Baptiste Matho, composer (d 1743) 25 March – Félix Le Pelletier de La Houssaye, statesman (d. 1723) 2 June – Anne-Marguerite Petit du Noyer, journalist (d. 1719) 24 June – Jean Baptiste Massillon, Roman Catholic bishop and famous preacher (d. 1742) 26 July – Louis Carré, mathematician (d. 1711) 5 August – Charles-Armand de Gontaut, duc de Biron, military leader (d. 1756) 31 August – Guillaume Amontons, scientific instrument inventor and physicist (d. 1705) 1 September – Jean Boivin the Younger, writer, scholar and translator (d. 1726) 20 September – Louis-François Duplessis de Mornay, prelate (d. 1741) 18 October – Prince Eugene of Savoy, military commander (d. 1736) 14 December – Jean de Forcade de Biaix (d. 1729)
Full date unknown Jacques Adam, translator (d. 1735) Louis Deseschaliers, actor Jean-Baptiste Labat, clergyman, botanist, writer, explorer, ethnographer, soldier, engineer and landowner (d. 1738) Louis Laguerre, painter (d. 1721) Louis Le Pelletier, linguist (d. 1733) Raveneau de Lussan, buccaneer Pierre-Denis Martin, painter (d. 1742)
Deaths
11 may – Henri II d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville (b. 1595) 5 June – Béatrix de Cusance, baroness (b. 1614) 20 June – Catherine Henriette de Bourbon, Légitimée de France, Duchess of Elbeuf (b. 1596) 31 October – Théophile Raynaud, Jesuit theologian and writer (b. 1583) 27 December – Christine of France, Duchess of Savoy (b. 1606)
Full date unknown Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède, novelist and dramatist (b. 1609 or 1610) Claude de Bourdeille, comte de Montrésor, aristocrat and Count of Montrésor (born c. 1606)
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