1677 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XIV

Events

• January 1 - Jean Racine's tragedy Phèdre is first performed.
• August - The guild of the Maitresses bouquetieres is founded in Paris.
• October 29 - Michel le Tellier becomes chancellor of France.
• November 16 - French troops occupy Freiburg.
• Jules Hardouin Mansart begins la place Vendôme in Paris.
• End of the use of male impotence as a factor in French divorce proceedings.
• Ice cream becomes popular in Paris.
• The population of Paris first exceeds 500,000.

Births

• February 8 - Jacques Cassini, French astronomer
• May 4 - Françoise-Marie [de Bourbon], youngest daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan, wife of Philippe d'Orléans, ''le Régent''