1651 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XIV

  Events

• The Lycée Stendhal was founded
• Château de Maisons was completed

  Births

• 26 February – Jean Beausire, architect, engineer and fountain-maker
• 30 April –Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, priest and educational reformer
• 27 May – Louis Antoine de Noailles, bishop and cardinal
• 4 July – Honoratus a Sancta Maria, controversialist.
• 6 August – François Fénelon, Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer.
• 1 November – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay, politician

  Full date missing

• Frère Jacques Beaulieu, urologist
• Magdelaine Chapelain, fortune teller and poisoner
• Jean-François Lalouette, composer
• Jacques-François de Monbeton de Brouillan, military officer and governor
• Philibert-Emmanuel de Froulay, chevalier de Tessé, army commander
• Guy Tachard, Jesuit missionary and mathematician

  Deaths

• 8 July – Charlotte des Essarts, noblewoman
• 23 August Jacques-Philippe Cornut, physician and botanist

  Full date missing

• Angélique Paulet, précieuse, singer and lute-playing musician
• Catherine Arnauld, religious figure
• François II de Beauharnais, politician
• Jacqueline de Bueil, noblewoman