1624 in France

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Events from the year 1624 in France.

Incumbents

Winter – The Rhône and the vineyards of Languedoc freeze.^[2]
2 January – Disgrace of Nicolas Brûlart de Sillery and Pierre Brûlart, marquis de Sillery.^[3]
6 January – Étienne Ier d'Aligre becomes Keeper of the Seals of France.^[4]
29 April – Louis XIII appoints Cardinal Richelieu to the Conseil du Roi (Royal Council).^[5]
May – Croquant rebellions in Quercy, suppressed on 7 June by Marshal de Thémines.^[6]
10 June – Treaty of Compiègne is signed between the Kingdom of France and the Dutch Republic.
13 August – Cardinal Richelieu is appointed by Louis XIII to be his chief minister, having intrigued against Charles de La Vieuville, Superintendent of Finances, arrested for corruption the previous day.^[5]
3 October – Étienne Ier d'Aligre becomes Grand Chancellor of France.^[7]
21 October – Edict of Saint-Germain-en-Laye establishes a Chamber of Justice for the investigation of financial abuse and embezzlement in government.^[8]
26 November – French troops under the Marquis de Ceuvre set out to occupy the forts of Valtellina.^[9]
6–10 December – Treaties with Venice and the Duke of Savoy over Valtellina.
The Palace of Versailles is first built by Louis XIII, as a hunting lodge.
The Parlement passes a decree forbidding criticism of Aristotle, on pain of death.^[10]
Congregation of the Mission settles in the Collège des Bons Enfants in Paris.
French colonial empire: Coastal trading settlements established in French Guiana and Senegal.

16 January – Pierre Lambert de la Motte, bishop (died 1679)
21 March – François Roberday, baroque organist and composer (died 1680)
31 March – Antoine Pagi, ecclesiastical historian (died 1699)
11 June – Jean-Baptiste du Hamel, cleric and natural philosopher (died 1706)
22 August – Jean Regnault de Segrais, poet and novelist born (died 1701)
25 August – François de la Chaise, churchman (died 1709)
30 October – Paul Pellisson, historian (died 1693)
3 November – Jean II d'Estrées, noble (died 1707)
28 November – Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d'Andilly, Jansenist nun (died 1684)

Unknown date

Louise de Prie, royal governess (died 1709)
1624 or 1625 – Gaspard Marsy, sculptor (died 1681)
Gabriel Vendages de Malapeire, French aristocrat, parliamentarian and poet (died 1702)

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^ ^a ^b Hildesheimer, Françoise. La double mort du roi Louis XIII. Flammarion. ISBN 9782081277748.
^ Bercé, Yves-Marie. Histoire des Croquants. Le Seuil. ISBN 9782021346138.
^ Guyot, Germain Antoine (1788). Traité des droits. Paris: Visse. p. 225.
^ Chasles, François-Jacques (1725). Dictionnaire universel, chronologique et historique, de justice, police, et finances. Vol. 2. Claude Robustel. p. 465.
^ Charvériat, Émile (1878). Histoire de la guerre de trente ans, 1618–1648: Période palatine et période danoise (1618–1630). Vol. 1. Plon.
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