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List of events
Events from the year 1670 in
France
Incumbents
Events
January –
Françoise-Marguerite , daughter of
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné , marries the Comte de Grignan.
[2]
1 June – At
Dover , England, Louis XIV and
Charles II of England sign the
Secret Treaty of Dover , ending hostilities between their kingdoms. Louis will give Charles 200,000 pounds annually. In return, Charles will relax the laws against Catholics, gradually re-Catholicize England, support French policy against the
Dutch Republic , and convert to Catholicism himself.
14 October – The première of
Molière 's 5-act comédie-ballet
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme is performed by his troupe with himself in the title rôle before Louis XIV and the royal court at the
Château de Chambord , with incidental music by
Jean-Baptiste Lully .
21 November – The première of
Racine 's tragedy
Berenice takes place with the Comédiens du Roi at the
Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris.
[3]
24 November – Louis XIV authorises work to commence on construction of
Les Invalides , the veterans' hospital in Paris.
The first French settlers arrive at the
Petite Côte of modern-day
Senegal .
Jean Picard calculates the
Earth radius to within 0.44% of the modern value.
[4]
Births
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick
Deaths
17 January –
Jean Leurechon , Jesuit priest and mathematician (born 1591)
21 January
2 March –
François-Henri Salomon de Virelade , lawyer (born 1620)
10 March –
Ludovicus a S. Carolo , Carmelite scholar, writer, and bibliographer (born 1608)
9 April –
Samuel de Sorbiere , physician, philosopher, and translator (born 1615)
28 April –
Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy , aristocrat, statesman and military leader (born 1596 or 1603)
10 May –
Claude Vignon , painter (born 1593)
14 June –
François Annat , Jesuit theologian (born 1590)
11 September –
Jeanne Chezard de Matel , mystic (born 1596)
28 September –
Alexander Morus , Calvinist preacher (born 1616)
11 October –
Louis Le Vau , architect (born 1612)
Full date missing –
Nicolas Prévost , painter (born 1604)
See also
References
^
"BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715)" . www.bbc.co.uk . Retrieved 9 June 2022 .
^
The letters of Madame de Sevigne to her daughter and friends . Roberts Bros. 1878. Retrieved 2013-02-27 .
^ Garreau, Joseph E. (1984), "Jean Racine", in Hochman, Stanley (ed.), McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama , vol. 4 (2nd ed.), New York: McGraw-Hill, p. 194,
ISBN
978-0-07-079169-5
^ Barentine, John C. (2015).
The Lost Constellations: A History of Obsolete, Extinct, or Forgotten Star Lore . Springer. p. 308.
ISBN
9783319227955 .
^
Blangstrup, Chr. , ed. (1915).
"Berwick, James Fitzjames" .
Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 3 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. p. 95. Retrieved 27 August 2015 .
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