1655 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XIV

Events

• The French army under Turenne took Landrecies after a siege in 14 July, and the towns of Condé and Saint-Ghislain, on 18 and 25 August.

Births

• 14 February - Jacques-Nicolas Colbert, churchman
• 30 September - Charles III, Prince of Guéméné, nobleman
• 4 October - Lothar Franz von Schönborn, archbishop

Deaths

• 27 February - Henri Chabot, nobleman
• 6 April - David Blondel, clergyman, historian and classical scholar
• 28 July - Cyrano de Bergerac, novelist and playwright,
• 7 September - François Tristan l'Hermite, dramatist
• 24 October - Pierre Gassendi, philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer and mathematician