1672 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XIV

Events

• 1672 to 1678 - the Franco-Dutch War

Births

Full date unknown

• Antoine Augustin Calmet, Benedictine monk

Deaths

• February 17 - Madeleine Béjart, French actress and theatre director

Full date unknown

• Jacques Rohault, philosopher, physicist and mathematician
• Pierre Séguier, statesman
• Denis Gaultier, lutenist and composer
• Tanneguy Le Fèvre, scholar
• Thomas Gobert, priest and composer
• Antoine Godeau, bishop, poet and exegete