1684 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XIV

Events

• 15 August - Signing of the Truce of Ratisbon
• The Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, designed by Jules Hardouin Mansart, is completed
• The Château de Marly in the Marly-le-Roi commune is completed for Louis XIV
• The Canal de l'Eure with its notable aqueduct, designed by the military engineer Lieutenant Général Vauban to serve Versailles for Louis XIV, is begun; work is abandoned about 1690

Births

Full date unknown

• Jean Astruc, physician and professor

Deaths

Full date unknown

• Anne de La Vigne, natural philosopher
• Claude Bazin de Bezons, lawyer and politician
• Marguerite, Duchess of Rohan, noblewoman
• Pierre Corneille, playwright
• François Pallu, bishop
• Peter du Moulin, clergyman
• Antoine Gombaud, writer
• Edme Mariotte, physicist
• Gabriel de Guilleragues, politician