1618 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XIII

Events

• Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, begins remodelling the Paris residence which becomes the Hôtel de Rambouillet to form a literary salon.

Births

• January 8 - Madeleine Béjart, actress and theatre director

Full date missing

• Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, memoirist
• François Blondel, architect
• Lambert Closse, merchant
• Médard des Groseilliers, explorer and fur trader
• Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne, diplomat and minister

Deaths

Full date missing

• Jacques Davy Duperron, cardinal
• François de Boivin, chronicler