Events from the year 1680 in France.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Louis XIV
Events
- Chambers of Reunion (French courts under Louis XIV) decide on complete annexation of Alsace.
Births
- 23 February – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (d. 1767)
- 9 April – Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist (d. 1754)
Deaths
- 22 February – Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress (b. c. 1607)
- 14 March – René Le Bossu, French critic (b. 1631)
- 17 March – François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (b. 1613)
- 23 March – Nicolas Fouquet, French statesman (b. 1615)
- Marie Meurdrac, French chemist and alchemist (b. 1610)
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