1660 in France
Events from the year 1660 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- Carib Expulsion: French-led ethnic cleansing removes most of the Carib population of the island of Martinique.
- Blaise Pascal's Lettres provinciales, a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, is ordered by the king to be shredded and burned.
Births
- January - Hippolyte Hélyot, historian
- 30 November - Victor-Marie d'Estrées, Marshal of France
- 4 December - André Campra, composer and conductor
Deaths
- 10 June - Étienne de Flacourt, governor of Madagascar, drowned at sea
- 5 November - Alexandre de Rhodes, Jesuit missionary
- 1 December - Pierre d'Hozier, genealogist
- 3 December - Jacques Sarazin, sculptor
Full date unknown
- Jean Boulanger, painter
- Jean-Jacques Chifflet, physician and antiquary
- Richard Tassel, religious painter
- Christophe Tassin, cartographer