1677 in France
# 1677 in France

Events from the year 1677 in France.

## Incumbents

* Monarch: Louis XIV

## Events

* January 1 – Jean Racine's tragedy Phèdre is first performed.
* August – The guild of the Maitresses bouquetieres is founded in Paris.
* October 29 – Michel le Tellier becomes chancellor of France.
* November 16 – French troops occupy Freiburg.
* Jules Hardouin Mansart begins la place Vendôme in Paris (completed in 1698).
* End of the use of male impotence as a factor in French divorce proceedings.
* Ice cream becomes popular in Paris.
* The population of Paris first exceeds 500,000.

## Births

* February 8 – Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (d. 1756)
* May 4 – Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, youngest daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan, wife of Philippe d'Orléans, le Régent (d.1749)
