1667 in France

Events from the year 1667 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 – Louis XIV abolishes the livre parisis (Paris pound), in favor of the much more widely used livre tournois (Tours pound). He also designates Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie as the first chief of police of Paris.
24 May – The War of Devolution begins: France invades Flanders and Franche-Comté; on 10 August the siege of Lille, the war's only main engagement, begins, ending in a French victory.
26 June – Louis XIV conquers Tournai.
31 July – The Treaty of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War and recognizes Acadia as a French possession.{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_medway_1667.html |title=Dutch Raid on the Medway, 19–24 June 1667 |work=Military History Encyclopedia on the Web |access-date=2012-08-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110909055834/http://historyofwar.org/articles/battles_medway_1667.html |archive-date=2011-09-09}}{{cite book|title=The Pocket Date Book|url=https://archive.org/details/pocketdatebooko00categoog|location=London|publisher=Chapman and Hall|first=William L. R.|last=Cates|author-link=William Leist Readwin Cates|year=1863}}

Nicolas Bertin, painter (died 1736){{cite encyclopedia |title=Bertin, Nicolas |page=90 |encyclopedia=Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon |volume=3 |year=1915 |edition=2 |editor=Blangstrup, Chr. |editor-link=Christian Blangstrup |publisher=J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel |location=Copenhagen |language=da |url=https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/3/0102.html |access-date=25 August 2015 }}

16 or 17 March – Philippe Labbe, Jesuit writer on historical, geographical and philological issues (born 1607)
16 May – Samuel Bochart, biblical scholar (born 1599)