1666 in France

Events from the year 1666 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Louis XIV

Events

 * 13 January – French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier arrives in Dhaka, and meets Shaista Khan.
 * 4 June – Molière's comedy The Misanthrope is premièred at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris, by the King's Players.
 * 22 December – The French Academy of Sciences, founded by the king, first meets.
 * The Institution libre du Sacré-Cœur at Tourcoing is founded.

Births



 * 15 February – Claude-Élisée de Court de La Bruyère, naval officer (d. 1752)
 * 18 June – Jeanne Delanoue, saint in the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1736)
 * 2 October – Marie Anne de Bourbon, Légitimée de France, Duchess of La Vallière (d. 1739)

Full date missing

 * Léopold Durand, architect (d. 1746)
 * Jean d'Estrées, priest and politician (d. 1718)
 * Philippe Grandjean, type engraver (d. 1714)

Deaths

 * 16 February – Jean de Lauson, governor (b. 1584)
 * 26 February – Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, nobleman (b. 1629)
 * 23 September – François Mansart, architect (b. 1598)
 * 23 September – Hannibal Sehested, Dano-Norwegian statesman and diplomat (b. 1609)
 * 3 November – Henri-Auguste de Loménie, comte de Brienne, politician (b. 1594)

Full date missing

 * Louis de La Forge, philosopher (b. 1632)