1648 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XIV
• Regent: Anne of Austria

Events

• 23 March - Treaty of Concordia
• 17 May - Battle of Zusmarshausen
• 20 August - Battle of Lens

Births

• 5 August - Guichard Joseph Duverney, anatomist

Deaths

Full date missing

• François de Cauvigny de Colomby, poet, translator and King's counsellor
• Vincent Voiture, writer
• Isaac de Caus, architect and landscaper
• Marin Mersenne, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, "father of acoustics"