1688 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XIV

  Events

Births

Full date missing

• Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder, engraver.
• Jacques Chereau, engraver and printmaker

  Deaths

Full date missing

• Antoine Furetière, scholar
• Philippe Quinault, librettist and dramatist
• Abraham Duquesne, naval officer
• Claude Mellan, engraver and painter
• Nicolas Denys, aristocrat, explorer, colonizer and soldier in New France