1632 in France
Events from the year 1632 in France.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Louis XIII
Events
- 29 March - The Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
- 23 July - Three hundred colonists for New France depart Dieppe.
- 1 September - A rebellion against French king Louis XIII is crushed at the Battle of Castelnaudary. The leader of the rebellion, Gaston, Duke of Orléans, the brother of Louis XIII, surrenders.
- 9 September - Thirty Years' War - Besieged by Wallenstein at Nuremberg, Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus attempts to break the siege, but is defeated in the Battle of the Alte Veste.
Births
- 1 January - Claude de Choiseul-Francières, a Marshal of France
- 12 February - Charles Aubert de La Chesnaye, businessman active in Canada
- 3 May - Catherine of St. Augustine, nun and nurse of New France
- 10 June - Esprit Fléchier, writer and Bishop of Nîmes
- 14 June - Jean Gallois, scholar and abbé
- 13 August - François-Séraphin Régnier-Desmarais, ecclesiastic
- 20 August - Louis Bourdaloue, Jesuit preacher
- 12 September - Claude Lefèbvre, painter and engraver
- 15 September - Comte de Grignan, aristocrat
Deaths
- 30 October - Henri II de Montmorency, French naval officer and Governor of Languedoc