title: 1678 in France
text: # 1678 in France
  
  Events from the year 1678 in France
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch – Louis XIV
  
  ## Events
  
  * 23 July – The Battle of Ortenbach, part of the Franco-Dutch War
  * 14 August – The Battle of Saint-Denis, the last major action of the Franco-Dutch War
  * August 1678 to December 1679 – The Treaties of Nijmegen, in the aftermath of the Franco-Dutch War of 1672–78
  
  ## Births
  
  ### Full date missing
  
  * Jacques Caffieri, sculptor (d. 1755)
  * Augustin Lippi, botanist and physician (d. 1675)
  * Jacques Talbot, cleric and schoolmaster (d. 1756)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 16 January Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé, writer and salonnière (b. 1599)
  * 4 June – Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, noblewoman and Princess of Monaco (b. 1639)
  
  ### Full date missing
  
  * Jacques de Chevanes, polemicist (b. ca. 1608)
  * Robert Desgabets, Cartesian philosopher and Benedictine prior (b. 1610)
  * Gilles Guérin, sculptor (b. 1611)
  