1679 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XIV

Events

• Treaties of Nijmegen
• Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
• Treaty of Fontainebleau

Births

Full date unknown

• Dominique Anel, surgeon
• George Psalmanazar, imposter and writer

Deaths

Full date unknown

• Marie de Rohan, aristocrat
• Jacques Cassagne, clergyman and poet
• Jacques de Billy, mathematician
• Pierre Lambert de la Motte, bishop
• Guillaume Courtois, painter
• Raymond Breton, Dominican missionary and linguist
• François Combefis, Dominican patrologist