1648 in France
Incumbents
- Monarch – Louis XIV{{cite web |title=BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715) |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/louis_xiv.shtml |website=www.bbc.co.uk |access-date=9 June 2022}}
- Regent: Anne of Austria{{cite web |title=Anne of Austria, Queen and Regent of France |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG17405 |website=www.britishmuseum.org |access-date=9 June 2022}}
Events
- 23 March – Treaty of Concordia
- 17 May – Battle of Zusmarshausen
- 20 August – Battle of Lens
Births
- 5 August – Guichard Joseph Duverney, anatomist (died 1730){{cite encyclopedia |title=Duverney (du Verney), Guichard Joseph |encyclopedia=Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon |volume=6 |year=1917 |edition=2 |editor=Blangstrup, Chr. |editor-link=Christian Blangstrup |publisher=J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel |location=Copenhagen |language=da |url=https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/6/0575.html |access-date=24 September 2015 }}
Deaths
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- François de Cauvigny de Colomby, poet, translator and King's counsellor (born c.1588)
- Vincent Voiture, writer (born 1597)
- Isaac de Caus, architect and landscaper (born 1590)
- Marin Mersenne, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, "father of acoustics" (born 1588)
See also
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