# 1653 in France

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Events from the year **1653 in [France](/source/France)**.

## Incumbents

- **Monarch**: [Louis XIV](/source/Louis_XIV)[1]

## Events

- [3 February](/source/3_February) – [Cardinal Mazarin](/source/Cardinal_Mazarin) returns to [Paris](/source/Paris) from exile.
- *Petite post*, a system of postage using prepaid labels and [post boxes](/source/Post_box), is introduced in Paris by [Jean-Jacques Renouard de Villayer](/source/Jean-Jacques_Renouard_de_Villayer).
- [Madeleine de Scudéry](/source/Madeleine_de_Scud%C3%A9ry) and her friend, the lutenist [Mlle Bocquet](/source/Mlle_Bocquet), launch a salon.
- [Jean-Baptiste Boësset](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Bo%C3%ABsset) and [Jean-Baptiste Lully](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Lully) start their collaboration to produce [ballets de cour](/source/Ballet_de_cour)
- [Blaise Pascal](/source/Blaise_Pascal) publishes his *Traité du triangle arithmétique* in which he describes [Pascal's triangle](/source/Pascal's_triangle); and his *Traités de l’équilibre des liqueurs* in which he explains [Pascal's law](/source/Pascal's_law).

## Births

- [24 January](/source/24_January) – [Dom Jacques Alexandre](/source/Dom_Jacques_Alexandre), Benedictine (d. [1734](/source/1734_in_France))
- [1 March](/source/1_March) – [Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour](/source/Jean-Baptiste-Henri_de_Valincour), classical scholar (d. [1730](/source/1730_in_France))
- [24 March](/source/24_March) – [Joseph Sauveur](/source/Joseph_Sauveur), mathematician (d. [1716](/source/1716_in_France))
- [8 May](/source/8_May) – [Claude Louis Hector de Villars](/source/Claude_Louis_Hector_de_Villars), Marshal of France (d. [1734](/source/1734_in_France))
- [10 August](/source/10_August) – [Louis-Guillaume Pécour](/source/Louis-Guillaume_P%C3%A9cour), dancer and choreographer (d. [1729](/source/1729_in_France))
- [8 October](/source/8_October) – [Michel Baron](/source/Michel_Baron), actor (d. 1729)
- [20 October](/source/20_October) – [Charles-François Poerson](/source/Charles-Fran%C3%A7ois_Poerson), painter (d. [1725](/source/1725_in_France))

### Full date unknown

- [Sébastien Barras](/source/S%C3%A9bastien_Barras), painter and engraver (d. [1703](/source/1703_in_France))
- [Jacques-Philippe Ferrand](/source/Jacques-Philippe_Ferrand), miniaturist and painter in enamel (d. [1732](/source/1732_in_France))
- [Nicolas Fouché](/source/Nicolas_Fouch%C3%A9), painter (d. [1733](/source/1733_in_France))

## Deaths

- [10 July](/source/10_July) – [Gabriel Naudé](/source/Gabriel_Naud%C3%A9), librarian and scholar (b. [1600](/source/1600_in_France))
- [26 June](/source/26_June) – [Juliana Morell](/source/Juliana_Morell), Dominican nun and scholar (b. [1594](/source/1594) in Spain)
- [3 September](/source/3_September) – [Claudius Salmasius](/source/Claudius_Salmasius), classical scholar (b. [1588](/source/1588_in_France))
- [23 September](/source/23_September) – [Jacques Goar](/source/Jacques_Goar), Hellenist (b. [1601](/source/1601_in_France))
- [26 September](/source/26_September) – [Charles de l'Aubespine, marquis de Châteauneuf](/source/Charles_de_l'Aubespine,_marquis_de_Ch%C3%A2teauneuf), diplomat and government official (b. [1580](/source/1580_in_France))

## References

1. ["BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715)"](https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/louis_xiv.shtml). *www.bbc.co.uk*. Retrieved 9 June 2022.

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