1657 in France

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March – The Treaty of Paris allied the English Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell with King Louis XIV of France against King Philip IV of Spain.
The 54th Infantry Regiment was formed.

11 February – Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, writer (d. 1757)^[2]
25 May – Henri-Pons de Thiard de Bissy, bishop and cardinal (d. 1737)
16 June – Louis Ellies Dupin, ecclesiastical historian (d. 1719)^[3]
24 July – Jean Mathieu de Chazelles, hydrographer (d. 1710)
7 August – Henri Basnage de Beauval, Huguenot historian, lexicographer and journal editor (d. 1710)
9 August – Pierre-Étienne Monnot, sculptor (d. 1733)
15 December – Michel Richard Delalande, composer and organist (d. 1726)

^ "BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715)". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
^ "Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle". www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Du Pin, Louis Ellies" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 687.
^ Raynal, Guillaume Thomas François (1766). "Jean-Sebastien Truchet, né à Lyon l'an 1657, mort en 1729".
^ "La Mothe-Houdancourt".

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