Events from the year 1634 in France.
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July–December
- July 26 – Siege of La Mothe-en-Bassigny in Lorraine by Armand Nompar de Caumont ends after 141 days when it capitulates to him.[4]
- July 4 – The trading post of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France (the modern-day Canadian province of Quebec).
- August (prob.) – Jean Nicolet becomes the first European to set foot in Wisconsin. He is in search of a water-route to the Pacific, when he lands at Green Bay (Lake Michigan).
- August 12 – Ferry de Haraucourt de Chambley is nominated as bailiff of Nancy.[4]
- August 18 – Loudun possessions: Father Urbain Grandier is burned at the stake in Loudun having been accused of demonic possession and of having introduced it to the convent of Ursulines here.[7][8]
- September 5 – The Parlement of Paris declares the second marriage of Gaston, Duke of Orléans, with Marguerite of Lorraine, to be invalid; it condemns Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine for felony and kidnapping of Gaston and reunites the Duchy of Bar with the kingdom.[9]
- September 11
- After the Battle of Nördlingen, Richelieu advises the king to continue to support the anti-Habsburg cause.[10]
- Beginning of the Grands Jours de Poitiers [fr], extraordinary justice sessions instigated by the king.[11]
- September 16–17 – Edict and declaration of the king at Monceaux ordering establishment of a sovereign council at Nancy (continues to 13 July 1637).[4]
- October 8 – Gaston, Duke of Orléans, leaves Brussels and returns to Paris. On October 21 at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, he swears before the king "to love the cardinal as much as he had hated him".[12]
- October 9 – Treaty between the king and the Swedish Empire over Alsace;[13] French garrisons replace the Swedish here.
- October 13 – Foundation of the hospice des Incurables, the future Laennec hospital of Paris.[14]
- November 17 – Cardinal Mazarin, named apostolic nuncio extraordinary on August 19, arrives in Paris to negotiate restitution of the estates of the Duke of Lorraine and to reconcile France and the Habsburgs, taking up his duties on November 26.[4]
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