1653 in France

Events from the year 1653 in France.

Incumbents

3 February – Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile.
Petite post, a system of postage using prepaid labels and post boxes, is introduced in Paris by Jean-Jacques Renouard de Villayer.
Madeleine de Scudéry and her friend, the lutenist Mlle Bocquet, launch a salon.
Jean-Baptiste Boësset and Jean-Baptiste Lully start their collaboration to produce ballets de cour
Blaise Pascal publishes his Traité du triangle arithmétique in which he describes Pascal's triangle; and his Traités de l’équilibre des liqueurs in which he explains Pascal's law.

24 January – Dom Jacques Alexandre, Benedictine (d. 1734)
1 March – Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour, classical scholar (d. 1730)
24 March – Joseph Sauveur, mathematician (d. 1716)
8 May – Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Marshal of France (d. 1734)
10 August – Louis-Guillaume Pécour, dancer and choreographer (d. 1729)
8 October – Michel Baron, actor (d. 1729)
20 October – Charles-François Poerson, painter (d. 1725)
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- Sébastien Barras, painter and engraver (d. 1703)
- Jacques-Philippe Ferrand, miniaturist and painter in enamel (d. 1732)
- Nicolas Fouché, painter (d. 1733)

10 July – Gabriel Naudé, librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
26 June – Juliana Morell, Dominican nun and scholar (b. 1594 in Spain)
3 September – Claudius Salmasius, classical scholar (b. 1588)
23 September – Jacques Goar, Hellenist (b. 1601)
26 September – Charles de l'Aubespine, marquis de Châteauneuf, diplomat and government official (b. 1580)