1646 in France
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Events from the year 1646 in France.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Louis XIV[1]
- Regent: Anne of Austria[2]
Events
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- March – Nicolas de Neufville is made governor of the young Louis XIV by the queen-mother
- 14 June – The Battle of Orbetello of the Franco-Spanish War takes place, resulting in a Spanish victory
- 4 July – Pierre Teuleron, sieur de Repentigny, granted Jules Trottier II land in La Rochelle to build and develop New France, under the authorization of Jacques Le Neuf de la Poterie.
- 4 August – Louis, le Grand Condé takes Mardyck in the Siege of Dunkirk
- 10 August – The French and Swedish armies unite in Wetzlar for the Bavarian campaign
- 29 August – Declaration du Roy is published by King Louis XIV
- 7 September – Louis, le Grand Condé takes Veurne in the Siege of Dunkirk
- 23 September – Le Cardinal arrives in Quebec (New France) with Jules Trottier II and his family
- 10 October – France takes Dunkirk from the Spanish Netherlands for the first time.
- 20 October – Nicolas de Neufville is promoted to marshal of France
Undated
- Amsterdam artists Lambert Doomer (1624-1700) and Willem Schellinks (1627-1678) journey from Nantes to Paris. Doomer extensively documented what they saw in his publication, Tour de France 1646.[3]
Works
Books
- Coustumes generales du Pays by Bertrand d'Argentré (1519-1590) is published by Nicolas Buon
- Declaration du Roy is published by King Louis XIV
- La doctrine des moeurs (English: The Doctrine of Morals) by Marin le Roy de Gomberville
- Règlement de la Communauté by Saint Nicolas of Liancourt
- Les oeuvres de Me Guy Coquille, sr de Romenay is published by Maître A. Loysel and Anthoine de Cay in Paris
- L’Art de régner ou le Sage gouverneur by Gillet de La Tessonerie
- Question celebre. S'il est nécessaire, ou non, que les filles soient sçavantes by Anna Maria van Schurman
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Port de mer, effet de brume, Claude Lorrain, 1646
Buildings
- Construction begins on the Church of Saint-Sulpice, founded by parish priest Jean-Jacques Olier
- The Hôtel de Sourdéac is built in Paris
- The Hôtel Thuriot de la Rosière is built in Paris
- Église Saint-Martin de Vern-sur-Seiche is built in Ille-et-Vilaine
- Chapelle Sainte-Anne de La Grasserie is built in Ille-et-Vilaine
- Chapelle Sainte-Marguerite is built in Locoal-Mendon, canton of Belz
- The temple of Le Collet-de-Dèze is built
- The Église Notre-Dame is built in Chambéry
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Quiberet fountain in Annecy, built 1646
Paintings
- Port de mer, effet de brume by Claude Lorrain
- Le couronnement de Sainte-Cécile by Fournier
- Un miracle du frère Francisco by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
- Mariage de l'Électeur de Brandebourg by Johannes Mytens
- Saint Bruno révèle en songe au comte Roger une conspiration contre ui by Eustache Le Sueur
- Uranie by Eustache Le Sueur
- Énée et ses compagnons combattant les Harpies by François Perrier
- Solomon making a sacrifice to the idols by Sébastien Bourdon
- Anne of Austria with her children by the workshop of Philippe de Champaigne
Other
Births
- 17 February – Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, lawmaker (died 1714)[4]
- 10 October – Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné, aristocrat (died 1705)
- Nicolas de Fer, cartographer (died 1720)[5]
Deaths
- 12 May – Énemond Massé, Jesuit missionary (born 1575)
- 14 June – Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé, admiral (born 1619)
- 22 June – Daniel Dumonstier, artist (born 1574)
- 27 June – Achille d'Étampes de Valençay, military leader and Catholic Cardinal (born 1593)
- 22 September – Jean François Niceron, mathematician (born 1613)
- 23 December – François Maynard, poet (born 1582)
- 26 December – Henri II, Prince of Condé, French prince (born 1588)
Gallery
View of the river facade of the Hôtel du Petit-Bourbon from the Place Dauphine in Paris, with the Louvre Palace on the left. Stefano della Bella, 1646.
Engraving of the 1646 Church of Saint-Sulpice, c. 17th century.jpg)
Hôtel de Sourdéac, built 1646. Engraving c. 17th -18th century._(14747992082).jpg)
An image from Au Roy's 1946 emblem book, La doctrine des meours
Farmhouse in Alsace, Bas-Rhin built in 1646
1646-built calvary on the wall of the parish close to the Church of Saint-Magloire in Mahalon.
Village house in Quénépévan, Langoëlan, dating from 1646
Église Saint-Martin de Vern-sur-Seiche, built in 1646_Chapelle_Sainte-Anne_de_La_Grasserie_-_03.jpg)
Chapelle Sainte-Anne de La Grasserie à Louvigné-du-Désert, built in 1646
Chapelle Sainte-Marguerite, built in 1646
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Mitry-Mory Saint-Martin organ
See also
References
- ↑ "BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715)". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
- ↑ "Anne of Austria, Queen and Regent of France". www.britishmuseum.org. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
- ↑ "Tour de France 1646: op reis langs de Loire met Lambert Doomer". CODART. Retrieved 2026-08-09.
- ↑ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1915). "Boisguillebert, Pierre Le Pesant". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 3 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
- ↑ "Browse All : Images by Fer, Nicolas de, 1646-1720 of France". www.davidrumsey.com. Retrieved 2026-08-09.