1618 in France

Events from the year 1618 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Louis XIII

Events

 * Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, begins remodelling the Paris residence which becomes the Hôtel de Rambouillet to form a literary salon.

Births

 * January 8 – Madeleine Béjart, actress and theatre director (d. 1672)

Full date missing

 * Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, memoirist (died 1693)
 * François Blondel, architect (died 1686)
 * Lambert Closse, merchant (died 1662)
 * Médard des Groseilliers, explorer and fur trader (died 1696)
 * Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne, diplomat and minister (died 1699)

Full date missing

 * Jacques Davy Duperron, cardinal (born 1556)
 * François de Boivin, chronicler