Events from the year 1640 in France
Monarch – Louis XIII
Introduction of the Louis d'or
The Battle of Cádiz
Étienne Chauvin, Protestant divine (died 1725)
Marguerite de la Sablière, salonist and polymath (died 1693)
30 May – André Duchesne, historian and geographer (born 1584).
Claude de Bullion, aristocrat and politician (born 1569)
John Francis Regis, priest (born 1597)
Isaac Manasses de Pas, Marquis de Feuquieres, soldier (born 1590)
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