1640 in France

Events from the year 1640 in France

← 1639 1638 1637 1636 1635 1640 in France → 1641 1642 1643 1644 1645
Decades:	1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s 1660s
See also:	Other events of 1640 History of France  • Timeline  • Years

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XIII^[1]

Events

Louis d'or of Louis XIII (1640), first year of issue.

• Introduction of the Louis d'or
• The Battle of Cádiz

Births

• 9 March – Jacques d'Agar, portrait painter (died 1715)

Full date missing

• Étienne Chauvin, Protestant divine (died 1725)
• Marguerite de la Sablière, salonist and polymath (died 1693)

Deaths

• 30 May – André Duchesne, historian and geographer (born 1584)^[2]

Full date missing

• Claude de Bullion, aristocrat and politician (born 1569)
• John Francis Regis, priest (born 1597)
• Isaac Manasses de Pas, Marquis de Feuquieres, soldier (born 1590)

See also