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Events from the year 1688 in France

Incumbents

Monarch – Louis XIV^[1]

Events

Births

An Optical Print of The Roman Forum by Jacques Chereau

Full date missing

Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder, engraver (died 1754)^[2]
Jacques Chereau, engraver and printmaker (died 1776)

Deaths

Full date missing

Antoine Furetière, scholar (born 1619)
Philippe Quinault, librettist and dramatist (born 1635)
Abraham Duquesne, naval officer (born c.1610)
Claude Mellan, engraver and painter (born 1598)
Nicolas Denys, aristocrat, explorer, colonizer and soldier in New France (born 1598?)

See also

References

^ "BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715)". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1916). "Cochin, Charles-Nicolas". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 5 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. Retrieved 13 September 2015.

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