1649 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XIV
• Regent: Anne of Austria

Events

• 11 March - signing of the Peace of Rueil

Births

• 22 February - Bon Boullogne, painter
• 5 September - Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, mistress of Charles II of England

Deaths

• 24 April - Gaston Jean Baptiste de Renty, aristocrat and philanthropist
• 30 June - Simon Vouet, painter and draftsman
• 30 October - Honoré d'Albert, duke

Full date missing

• Jean Sirmond, poet and historiographer
• Christophe Justel, scholar
• François Véron, Jesuit controversialist