1661 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XIV

  Events

• The Paris Opera Ballet established
• The Académie Royale de Danse established

  Births

Full date missing

• Daniel d'Auger de Subercase, naval officer

  Deaths

Full date missing

• Girard Desargues, mathematician.
• René Menard, Jesuit missionary
• Louis Couperin, composer
• Georges de Brébeuf, poet