1646 in France

Events from the year 1646 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Louis XIV
 * Regent: Anne of Austria

Events

 * 10 October – France takes Dunkirk from the Spanish Netherlands for the first time.

Births

 * 17 February – Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, lawmaker (died 1714)
 * 10 October – Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné, aristocrat (died 1705)

Deaths

 * 12 May – Énemond Massé, Jesuit missionary (born 1575)
 * 14 June – Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé, admiral (born 1619)
 * 22 June – Daniel Dumonstier, artist (born 1574)
 * 27 June – Achille d'Étampes de Valençay, military leader and Catholic Cardinal (born 1593)
 * 22 September – Jean François Niceron, mathematician (born 1613)
 * 23 December – François Maynard, poet (born 1582)