1660 in France
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Events from the year 1660 in France
Incumbents
Events
- Carib Expulsion: French-led ethnic cleansing removes most of the Carib population of the island of Martinique.
- Blaise Pascal's Lettres provinciales, a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, is ordered by the king to be shredded and burned.
Births
- January – Hippolyte Hélyot, historian (died 1716)
- 30 November – Victor-Marie d'Estrées, Marshal of France (died 1737)
- 4 December (bapt.) – André Campra, composer and conductor (died 1744){{cite encyclopedia |title=Campra, André |encyclopedia=Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon |volume=4 |year=1916 |edition=2 |editor=Blangstrup, Chr. |editor-link=Christian Blangstrup |publisher=J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel |location=Copenhagen |language=da |url=https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/4/0574.html |access-date=12 September 2015 }}
Deaths
- 10 June – Étienne de Flacourt, governor of Madagascar, drowned at sea (born 1607)
- 5 November – Alexandre de Rhodes, Jesuit missionary (born 1591){{cite encyclopedia |title=Alexandre De Rhodes |last=Weber |first= Nicholas|year=1912|encyclopedia=The Catholic Encyclopedia |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13024a.htm |access-date=4 February 2016}}
- 1 December – Pierre d'Hozier, genealogist (born 1592)
- 3 December – Jacques Sarazin, sculptor (born 1588/90)
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- Jean Boulanger, painter (born 1606)
- Jean-Jacques Chifflet, physician and antiquary (born 1588)
- Richard Tassel, religious painter (born 1582)
- Christophe Tassin, cartographer (born early 1600s)
See also
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