1678 in France
# 1678 in France

Events from the year 1678 in France

## Incumbents

* Monarch – Louis XIV

## Events

* 23 July – The Battle of Ortenbach, part of the Franco-Dutch War
* 14 August – The Battle of Saint-Denis, the last major action of the Franco-Dutch War
* August 1678 to December 1679 – The Treaties of Nijmegen, in the aftermath of the Franco-Dutch War of 1672–78

## Births

### Full date missing

* Jacques Caffieri, sculptor (d. 1755)
* Augustin Lippi, botanist and physician (d. 1675)
* Jacques Talbot, cleric and schoolmaster (d. 1756)

## Deaths

* 16 January Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé, writer and salonnière (b. 1599)
* 4 June – Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, noblewoman and Princess of Monaco (b. 1639)

### Full date missing

* Jacques de Chevanes, polemicist (b. ca. 1608)
* Robert Desgabets, Cartesian philosopher and Benedictine prior (b. 1610)
* Gilles Guérin, sculptor (b. 1611)
