1660 in France

Events from the year 1660 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Louis XIV

Events

 * Carib Expulsion: French-led ethnic cleansing removes most of the Carib population of the island of Martinique.
 * Blaise Pascal's Lettres provinciales, a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, is ordered by the king to be shredded and burned.

Births

 * January – Hippolyte Hélyot, historian (died 1716)
 * 30 November – Victor-Marie d'Estrées, Marshal of France (died 1737)
 * 4 December (bapt.) – André Campra, composer and conductor (died 1744)

Deaths

 * 5 November – Alexandre de Rhodes, Jesuit missionary (born 1591)
 * 1 December – Pierre d'Hozier, genealogist (born 1592)
 * 3 December – Jacques Sarazin, sculptor (born 1588/90)

Full date missing

 * Christophe Tassin, cartographer (born early 1600s)
 * Jean Boulanger, painter (born 1606)
 * Étienne de Flacourt, governor of Madagascar (born 1607)
 * Richard Tassel, painter (born 1582)