1640 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XIII

Events

• Introduction of the Louis d'or
• The Battle of Cádiz

Births

• 9 March Jacques d'Agar, portrait painter

Full date missing

• Étienne Chauvin, Protestant divine
• Marguerite de la Sablière, salonist and polymath

Deaths

• 30 May - André Duchesne, historian and geographer

Full date missing

• Claude de Bullion, aristocrat and politician
• John Francis Regis, priest
• Isaac Manasses de Pas, Marquis de Feuquieres, soldier