1678 in France



Events from the year 1678 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Louis XIV

Events

 * 23 July – The Battle of Ortenbach, part of the Franco-Dutch War
 * 14 August – The Battle of Saint-Denis, the last major action of the Franco-Dutch War
 * August 1678 to December 1679 – The Treaties of Nijmegen, in the aftermath of the Franco-Dutch War of 1672–78

Full date missing

 * Jacques Caffieri, sculptor (d. 1755)
 * Augustin Lippi, botanist and physician (d. 1675)
 * Jacques Talbot, cleric and schoolmaster (d. 1756)

Deaths



 * 16 January Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé, writer and salonnière (b. 1599)
 * 4 June – Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, noblewoman and Princess of Monaco (b. 1639)

Full date missing

 * Jacques de Chevanes, polemicist (b. ca. 1608)
 * Robert Desgabets, Cartesian philosopher and Benedictine prior (b. 1610)
 * Gilles Guérin, sculptor (b. 1611)