1680 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XIV

Events

• Chambers of Reunion decide on complete annexation of Alsace.

Births

• 23 February - Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana
• 9 April - Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist

Deaths

• 22 February - Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress
• 14 March - René Le Bossu, French critic
• 17 March - François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer
• 23 March - Nicolas Fouquet, French statesman

Full date unknown

• Marie Meurdrac, French chemist and alchemist