1662 in France

Events from the year 1662 in France.

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See also:	Other events of 1662 History of France  • Timeline  • Years

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XIV

Events

• March 18 – Carrosses à cinq sols - A short-lived experiment of the first public buses (holding 8 passengers) begins in Paris.
• October 27 – Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for £400,000 (or 2.5 million livres).
• December 26 – Molière's play The School for Wives premieres.

Births

• January 17 – Françoise Pitel, French actor (d. 1721)
• April 26 – Marie Louise of Orléans (d. 1689)
• July 1 – Béatrice Hiéronyme de Lorraine, Abbess of Remiremont (d. 1738)
• September 1 – Louis de Carrières, French priest and Bible commentator (d. 1717)
• September 19 – Jean-Paul Bignon, French priest and man of letters (d. 1743)
• November 18 – Princess Anne Élisabeth of France (d. 1662)

Deaths

• March 20 – François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (b. 1592)