1653 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XIV

Events

• 3 February - Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile.Petite post, a system of postage using prepaid labels and post boxes, is introduced in Paris by Jean-Jacques Renouard de Villayer.
• Madeleine de Scudéry and her friend, the lutenist Mlle Bocquet, launch a salon.
• Jean-Baptiste Boësset and Jean-Baptiste Lully start their collaboration to produce ballets de cour
• Blaise Pascal publishes his Traité du triangle arithmétique in which he describes Pascal's triangle; and his Traités de l’équilibre des liqueurs in which he explains Pascal's law.

Births

• 24 January - Dom Jacques Alexandre, Benedictine
• 1 March - Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour, classical scholar
• 24 March - Joseph Sauveur, mathematician
• 8 May - Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Marshal of France
• 10 August - Louis-Guillaume Pécour, dancer and choreographer
• 8 October - Michel Baron, actor
• 20 October - Charles-François Poerson, painter

Full date unknown

• Sébastien Barras, painter and engraver
• Jacques-Philippe Ferrand, miniaturist and painter in enamel
• Nicolas Fouché, painter

Deaths

• 10 July - Gabriel Naudé, librarian and scholar
• 26 June - Juliana Morell, Dominican nun and scholar
• 3 September - Claudius Salmasius, classical scholar
• 23 September - Jacques Goar, Hellenist
• 26 September - Charles de l'Aubespine, marquis de Châteauneuf, diplomat and government official