1678 in France
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Events from the year 1678 in France
Incumbents
Events
- 23 July – The Battle of Ortenbach, part of the Franco-Dutch War
- 14 August – The Battle of Saint-Denis, the last major action of the Franco-Dutch War
- August 1678 to December 1679 – The Treaties of Nijmegen, in the aftermath of the Franco-Dutch War of 1672–78
Births
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- Jacques Caffieri, sculptor (d. 1755)
- Augustin Lippi, botanist and physician (d. 1675)
- Jacques Talbot, cleric and schoolmaster (d. 1756){{cite DCB |first=Louis-Philippe |last=Audet |title=Talbot, Jacques |volume=3 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/talbot_jacques_3E.html}}
Deaths
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- 16 January Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé, writer and salonnière (b. 1599)
- 4 June – Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, noblewoman and Princess of Monaco (b. 1639)
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- Jacques de Chevanes, polemicist (b. ca. 1608)
- Robert Desgabets, Cartesian philosopher and Benedictine prior (b. 1610)Easton, P., [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/desgabets/ "Robert Desgabets"] in Zalta, E. N. (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Gilles Guérin, sculptor (b. 1611)
See also
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