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Events from the year 1633 in France .
Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist.
MonsieurGaston, Duke of Orléans, was the third son of King Henry IV of France and his second wife, Marie de' Medici. As a son of the king, he was born a Fils de France. He later acquired the title Duke of Orléans, by which he was generally known during his adulthood. As the eldest surviving brother of King Louis XIII, he was known at court by the traditional honorific Monsieur.
Roland Émile Mousnier was a French historian of the early modern period in France and of the comparative studies of different civilizations.
Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny was a French novelist and general writer.
Théophraste Renaudot was a French physician, philanthropist, and journalist.
Jean, comte de Gassion was a Gascon military commander for France, prominent at the battle of Rocroi (1643) who reached the rank of Marshal of France at the age of thirty-four. He served Louis XIII and Louis XIV and died of wounds sustained during the 1647 siege of Lens.
La Gazette, originally Gazette de France, was the first weekly magazine published in France. It was founded by Théophraste Renaudot and published its first edition on 30 May 1631. It progressively became the mouthpiece of one royalist faction, the Legitimists. With the rise of modern news media and specialized and localized newspapers throughout the country in the early 20th century, La Gazette was finally discontinued in 1915.
The Revolt of the va-nu-pieds was an unsuccessful popular uprising in Normandy in 1639 following King Louis XIII's decision to set up the gabelle salt tax in Cotentin in place of the privilege of the quart-bouillon.
Christian Giudicelli was a French novelist and literary critic. His seventh novel, Station balnéaire, was awarded the 1986 Prix Renaudot. Giudicelli was one of the eight jury members of the French literary award Prix Contrepoint.
Events from the year 1555 in France.
Bibliothèque bleue is a type of ephemera and popular literature published in Early Modern France, comparable to the English chapbook and the German Volksbuch. As was the case in England and Germany, that literary format appealed to all levels of French society, transcending social, sex, and age barriers.
Eugène Louis Hatin was a 19th-century French historian, journalist and bibliographer.
Jean-Louis-Théodore Bachelet was a 19th-century French historian and musicologist.
The Compagnie de la France équinoxiale, or Compagnie de l'establissement des colonies françoises dans les terres fermes de l'Amerique, was a French enterprise formed in 1651 to colonize equatorial South America. The enterprise soon failed. In 1663 it was relaunched, but the next year was merged into a general company for all French possessions in the Americas. The colony of Cayenne, the nucleus of French Guiana, was eventually secured in 1674.
Charles Liénard, sieur de L'Olive was a French colonial leader who was the first governor of Guadeloupe.
Events from the year 1631 in France
Events from the year 1634 in France.
Events from the year 1639 in France
Christian Biet was a French professor of theatrical studies. His main work focused on the aesthetics of theatre.
