1659 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XIV

Events

• 21 May - France, the Commonwealth of England, and the Dutch Republic sign the Concert of The Hague.
• 7 November - Treaty of Pyrenees: French King Louis XIV and King Philip IV of Spain agree to French acquisition of Roussillon and
• The Spanish Infanta Maria Theresa brings cocoa to Paris.
• Parisian police raid a monastery, sending monks to prison for eating meat and drinking wine during Lent.

Births

• 4 March - Pierre Lepautre (1659–1744), French artist
• 8 March - Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor
• 22 June - Simon-Pierre Denys de Bonaventure, French officer and governor of Acadia
• 18 July - Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter

Full date unknown

• Charles Ancillon, French Protestant pastor

Deaths

• 16 January - Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer
• 17 February - Abel Servien, French diplomat
• 8 October - Jean de Quen, French Jesuit missionary and historian