1657 in France

Events from the year 1657 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}}

March – The Treaty of Paris allied the English Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell with King Louis XIV of France against King Philip IV of Spain.
The 54th Infantry Regiment was formed.

11 February – Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, writer (d. 1757){{cite web |url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fontenelle.html |title=Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle |website=www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk |access-date=24 April 2019}}
25 May – Henri-Pons de Thiard de Bissy, bishop and cardinal (d. 1737)
16 June – Louis Ellies Dupin, ecclesiastical historian (d. 1719){{cite EB1911|wstitle=Du Pin, Louis Ellies|volume=8|page=687}}
24 July – Jean Mathieu de Chazelles, hydrographer (d. 1710)
7 August – Henri Basnage de Beauval, Huguenot historian, lexicographer and journal editor (d. 1710)
9 August – Pierre-Étienne Monnot, sculptor (d. 1733)
15 December – Michel Richard Delalande, composer and organist (d. 1726)

Jean-François de Chamillart, churchman (d. 1714)
Anne Ferrand, writer (d. 1740)
Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, fur trader and explorer (d. 1704)
Jean-Baptiste Nolin, cartographer and engraver (d. 1708)
Jacques Savary des Brûlons, lexicographer (d. 1716)
Sébastien Truchet, Dominican priest, scientist and inventor (d. 1729){{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mQVcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA177 |title=Jean-Sebastien Truchet, né à Lyon l'an 1657, mort en 1729|last1=Raynal|first1=Guillaume Thomas François|year=1766}}

19 February – Jean Riolan the Younger, anatomist (b. 1577 or 1580)
24 March – Philippe de La Mothe-Houdancourt, count and marshal (b. 1605){{cite web |url=https://archive.org/stream/nouvellebiograph29hoef#page/n133/mode/2up |title=La Mothe-Houdancourt }}
24 December – Philippe Le Sueur de Petiville, poet (b. 1607)