1646 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XIV
• Regent: Anne of Austria

Events

• 10 October - France takes Dunkirk from the Spanish Netherlands for the first time.

Births

• 17 February – Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, lawmaker
• 10 October - Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné, aristocrat

Deaths

• 12 May - Énemond Massé, Jesuit missionary
• 14 June - Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé, admiral
• 22 June – Daniel Dumonstier, artist
• 27 June - Achille d'Étampes de Valençay, military leader and Catholic Cardinal
• 22 September - Jean François Niceron, mathematician
• 23 December - François Maynard, poet