1655 in France

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Events from the year 1655 in France

Incumbents

Monarch – Louis XIV

14 February – Jacques-Nicolas Colbert, churchman (died 1707)

30 September – Charles III, Prince of Guéméné, nobleman (died 1727)

4 October – Lothar Franz von Schönborn, archbishop (died 1729)

27 February – Henri Chabot, nobleman (born 1616)

6 April – David Blondel, clergyman, historian and classical scholar (born 1591)

28 July – Cyrano de Bergerac, novelist and playwright, (born 1619).

7 September – François Tristan l'Hermite, dramatist (born c.1601)

24 October – Pierre Gassendi, philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer and mathematician (born 1592)

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