1671 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XIV

Events

• 30 December - The Académie royale d'architecture is founded by Louis XIV in Paris, the world's first school of architecture.

Births

• 11 January - François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader
• 6 April - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet
• 14 July - Jacques d'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician

Deaths