1640 in France

Events from the year 1640 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Louis XIII

Events



 * Introduction of the Louis d'or
 * The Battle of Cádiz

Births

 * 9 March – Jacques d'Agar, portrait painter (died 1715)

Full date missing

 * Étienne Chauvin, Protestant divine (died 1725)
 * Marguerite de la Sablière, salonist and polymath (died 1693)

Deaths

 * 30 May – André Duchesne, historian and geographer (born 1584)

Full date missing

 * Claude de Bullion, aristocrat and politician (born 1569)
 * John Francis Regis, priest (born 1597)
 * Isaac Manasses de Pas, Marquis de Feuquieres, soldier (born 1590)