1637 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XIII

Births

• 16 April – Johan Vibe, military officer and engineer, Governor-general of Norway

Full date missing

• Nicolas Catinat, Marshal of France
• Jacques Marquette, Jesuit missionary

Deaths

Full date missing

• Philippe Habert, poet
• Augustin de Beaulieu, general
• Guillaume Courtet, Dominican priest, martyr
• Charles d'Ambleville, composer
• Henri de Bailly, composer

New books published

• René Descartes (1596–1650), Discourse on the Method.