1655 in France

Events from the year 1655 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Louis XIV

Births

 * 14 February – Jacques-Nicolas Colbert, churchman (died 1707)
 * 30 September – Charles III, Prince of Guéméné, nobleman (died 1727)
 * 4 October – Lothar Franz von Schönborn, archbishop (died 1729)

Deaths



 * 27 February – Henri Chabot, nobleman (born 1616)
 * 6 April – David Blondel, clergyman, historian and classical scholar (born 1591)
 * 28 July – Cyrano de Bergerac, novelist and playwright, (born 1619)
 * 7 September – François Tristan l'Hermite, dramatist (born c.1601)
 * 24 October – Pierre Gassendi, philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer and mathematician (born 1592)