1667 in France

Decades:	1640s; 1650s; 1660s; 1670s; 1680s;
See also:	History of France; Timeline of French history; List of years in France;

Events from the year 1667 in France.

Incumbents

March – Louis XIV abolishes the livre parisis (Paris pound), in favor of the much more widely used livre tournois (Tours pound). He also designates Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie as the first chief of police of Paris.
24 May – The War of Devolution begins: France invades Flanders and Franche-Comté; on 10 August the siege of Lille, the war's only main engagement, begins, ending in a French victory.
26 June – Louis XIV conquers Tournai.
31 July – The Treaty of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War and recognizes Acadia as a French possession.^[2]^[3]

16 or 17 March – Philippe Labbe, Jesuit writer on historical, geographical and philological issues (born 1607)
16 May – Samuel Bochart, biblical scholar (born 1599)

↑ "BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715)". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
↑ "Dutch Raid on the Medway, 19–24 June 1667". Military History Encyclopedia on the Web. Archived from the original on 2011-09-09. Retrieved 2012-08-10.
↑ Cates, William L. R. (1863). The Pocket Date Book. London: Chapman and Hall.
↑ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1915). "Bertin, Nicolas". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 3 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. p. 90. Retrieved 25 August 2015.

This French history–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information.