1667 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XIV

Events

• March - Louis XIV abolishes the livre parisis, in favor of the much more widely used livre tournois. He also designates Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie as the first chief of police of Paris.
• 24 May - The War of Devolution begins: France invades Flanders and Franche-Comté; on 10 August the siege of Lille, the war's only main engagement, begins, ending in a French victory.
• 26 June - Louis XIV conquers Tournai.
• 31 July - The Treaty of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War and recognizes Acadia as a French possession.

Births

• 2 November - James Louis Sobieski, Prince of Poland

Full date unknown

• Nicolas Bertin, painter

Deaths

• 16 or 17 March - Philippe Labbe, Jesuit writer on historical, geographical and philological issues
• 16 May - Samuel Bochart, biblical scholar