Paul Lacroix was a French author and journalist. He is known best by his pseudonym P.L. Jacob, bibliophile, or Bibliophile Jacob, suggested by his great interest in libraries and books generally.
Louis, Duke of Orléans was a member of the House of Bourbon, and as such was a prince du sang. At his father's death, he became the First Prince of the Blood and Duke of Orléans. Known as Louis le Pieux and also as Louis le Génovéfain, Louis was a pious, charitable and cultured prince, who took very little part in the politics of the time.
Jean Chrétien Ferdinand Hoefer was a German-French physician and lexicographer. He is now known for his many works on the history of science.
Jérôme Phélypeaux, comte de Pontchartrain, was a French statesman, son of Louis Phélypeaux and Marie de Maupeou.
Pierre-Antoine-Augustin, chevalier de Piis was a French dramatist and man of letters. With Pierre-Yves Barré he was one of the co-founders of Paris's Théâtre du Vaudeville.
Louis René Quentin de Richebourg de Champcenetz; was a French journalist guillotined for his writings. He was the son of the Marquis de Champcenetz, governor of the Tuileries Palace at the time of the French Revolution.
Louis Boullogne, known as Louis le père, was a French painter.
Louise Marguerite of Lorraine was a daughter of the Duke of Guise and a member of the House of Lorraine. She married François de Bourbon, titled the Prince of Conti. As such, after her marriage she was the Princess of Conti. She died without any surviving issue.
Marie Louise d'Orléans was Queen of Spain as the wife of King Charles II. She was born petite-fille de France as the daughter of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans and Princess Henrietta of England. Marie became the Queen of Spain on 19 November 1679, and remained in her post until her death in 1689 from the presumed cause of appendicitis.
The Nouvelle Biographie Générale, was a 46-volume, French-language, biographical reference work, compiled between 1852 and 1866 by Ferdinand Hoefer, French physician and lexicographer.
Bernardin Gigault, Marquis de Bellefonds was a French nobleman, military officer and courtier who was appointed Marshal of France in 1668 and held a number of senior positions in the personal household of King Louis XIV.
Michel de La Vigne, born in Vernon in 1588 and died on 14 June 1648, was a French physician.
Alexandre-Frédéric-Jacques Masson, marquis de Pezay, was an 18th-century French soldier, courtier and man of letters.
Alphonse-Marie-Denis de Vismes, called Saint-Alphonse, was an 18th-century French playwright and librettist.
Élisabeth Guibert was an 18th-century French woman writer.
Samuel Guichenon was a French lawyer, historian and genealogist.
Jean-Baptiste Nattier was a French history painter.
Events from the year 1624 in France.
Marie Gigault de Bellefonds, Marquise de Villars,, was the wife of the French ambassador and is remembered for her reports that described palace intrigue at the Spanish Court of King Charles II between 1679 and 1681, specifically attempts to promote the standing of the French King Louis XIV in Spain.
Jean Scholastique Pitton was a French writer and historian.
