1652 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XIV

  Events

• 7 April - Battle of Bléneau

  Births

• 24 January - Nicolas Chalon du Blé, general
• 14 February - Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard, nobleman, diplomat and military officer
• 9 April - Jean Le Fèvre, astronomer and physicist
• 21 April - Michel Rolle, mathematician, known for Rolle's theorem
• 9 November - Marie Anne d'Orléans, princess
• Full date missing
• *Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin, military officer
• *Charles de Ferriol, ambassador

  Deaths

• 13 March - Claude Bouthillier, statesman
• 13 April - Georges Fournier, Jesuit priest, geographer and mathematician
• May - Claude de L'Estoile, playwright and poet
• 10 May - Jacques Buteux, Jesuit missionary in Canada, shot
• 10 August - Jean Gaston, Duke of Valois, prince
• 18 August - Florimond de Beaune, mathematician
• November - Charles Fleury, lutenist, fell down a flight of stairs and apparently died in the arms of composer Johann Froberger
• Full date missing - Jacques Gaultier, lutenist