1688 in France

Events from the year 1688 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Louis XIV

Full date missing

 * Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder, engraver (died 1754)
 * Jacques Chereau, engraver and printmaker (died 1776)

Full date missing

 * Antoine Furetière, scholar (born 1619)
 * Philippe Quinault, librettist and dramatist (born 1635)
 * Abraham Duquesne, naval officer (born c.1610)
 * Claude Mellan, engraver and painter (born 1598)
 * Nicolas Denys, aristocrat, explorer, colonizer and soldier in New France (born 1598?)