1679 in France

Events from the year 1679 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Louis XIV

Events

 * Treaties of Nijmegen
 * Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
 * Treaty of Fontainebleau

Full date missing

 * Dominique Anel, surgeon (died 1730)
 * George Psalmanazar, imposter and writer (died 1763)

Full date missing

 * Marie de Rohan, aristocrat (born 1600)
 * Jacques Cassagne, clergyman and poet (born 1636)
 * Jacques de Billy, mathematician (born 1602)
 * Pierre Lambert de la Motte, bishop (born 1624)
 * Guillaume Courtois, painter (born 1628)
 * Raymond Breton, Dominican missionary and linguist (born 1609)
 * François Combefis, Dominican patrologist (born 1605)