1674 in France

Events from the year 1674 in France.

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Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XIV

Events

• August 11 – Battle of Seneffe: The French army under Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé defeats the Dutch–Spanish–Austrian army under William III of Orange.
• December 4 – Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illinois Confederation (which will in time grow into the city of Chicago).

Births

• January 15 – Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (d. 1762)
• August 2 – Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France (d. 1723)

Deaths

• February 22 – Jean Chapelain, French writer (b. 1595)
• March 8 – Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (b. 1597)
• June 14 – Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French writer (b. 1600)
• August 12 – Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (b. 1602)