title: 1677 in France
text: # 1677 in France
  
  Events from the year 1677 in France.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch: Louis XIV
  
  ## Events
  
  * January 1 – Jean Racine's tragedy Phèdre is first performed.
  * August – The guild of the Maitresses bouquetieres is founded in Paris.
  * October 29 – Michel le Tellier becomes chancellor of France.
  * November 16 – French troops occupy Freiburg.
  * Jules Hardouin Mansart begins la place Vendôme in Paris (completed in 1698).
  * End of the use of male impotence as a factor in French divorce proceedings.
  * Ice cream becomes popular in Paris.
  * The population of Paris first exceeds 500,000.
  
  ## Births
  
  * February 8 – Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (d. 1756)
  * May 4 – Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, youngest daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan, wife of Philippe d'Orléans, le Régent (d.1749)
  