1663 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XIV

  Events

• The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres is founded
• Construction of the Church of Saint-Just, Lyon is completed
• The Prix de Rome scholarship is established for students of the arts

  Births

• 16 March – Jean-Baptiste Matho, composer
• 25 March – Félix Le Pelletier de La Houssaye, statesman
• 2 June – Anne-Marguerite Petit du Noyer, journalist
• 24 June – Jean Baptiste Massillon, Roman Catholic bishop and famous preacher.
• 26 July – Louis Carré, mathematician
• 5 August – Charles-Armand de Gontaut, duc de Biron, military leader
• 31 August – Guillaume Amontons, scientific instrument inventor and physicist
• 1 September – Jean Boivin the Younger, writer, scholar and translator
• 20 September – Louis-François Duplessis de Mornay, prelate
• 18 October – Prince Eugene of Savoy, military commander
• 14 December – Jean de Forcade de Biaix

  Full date missing

• Jacques Adam, translator
• Louis Deseschaliers, actor
• Jean-Baptiste Labat, clergyman, botanist, writer, explorer, ethnographer, soldier, engineer and landowner
• Louis Laguerre, painter
• Louis Le Pelletier, linguist
• Raveneau de Lussan, buccaneer.
• Pierre-Denis Martin, painter

  Deaths

• 11 may – Henri II d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville
• 5 June – Béatrix de Cusance, baroness
• 20 June – Catherine Henriette de Bourbon, Légitimée de France, Duchess of Elbeuf
• 31 October – Théophile Raynaud, Jesuit theologian and writer
• 27 December – Christine of France, Duchess of Savoy

  Full date missing

• Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède, novelist and dramatist
• Claude de Bourdeille, comte de Montrésor, aristocrat and Count of Montrésor