1657 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XIV

Events

• March – The Treaty of Paris allied the English Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell with King Louis XIV of France against King Philip IV of Spain.
• The 54th Infantry Regiment was formed.

Births

• 11 February – Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, writer
• 25 May – Henri-Pons de Thiard de Bissy, bishop and cardinal
• 16 June – Louis Ellies Dupin, ecclesiastical historian
• 24 July – Jean Mathieu de Chazelles, hydrographer
• 7 August – Henri Basnage de Beauval, Huguenot historian, lexicographer and journal editor
• 9 August – Pierre-Étienne Monnot, sculptor
• 15 December – Michel Richard Delalande, composer and organist

Full date unknown

• Jean-François de Chamillart, churchman
• Anne Ferrand, writer
• Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, fur trader and explorer
• Jean-Baptiste Nolin, cartographer and engraver
• Jacques Savary des Brûlons, lexicographer
• Sébastien Truchet, Dominican priest, scientist and inventor

Deaths

• 19 February – Jean Riolan the Younger, anatomist
• 24 March – Philippe de La Mothe-Houdancourt, count and marshal
• 24 December – Philippe Le Sueur de Petiville, poet

Full date unknown

• Pompone de Bellièvre, magistrate, ambassador and statesman
• Françoise de Lansac, courtier