1625 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XIII

Events

• January - Battle of Blavet
• September - Recovery of Ré island

Births

• 20 August – Thomas Corneille, playwright

Full date missing

• Joseph de Montclar, cavalry general
• Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie, police officer

Deaths

• 1 June - Honoré d'Urfé, novelist

Full date missing

• Denis Jamet, priest
• Nicolas Viel, Recollect missionary
• Jacques Leschassier, jurist and magistrate
• César Oudin, Hispanist, translator, grammarian and lexicographer