TheDragonnades are instituted to intimidateHuguenot families into either leaving France or converting to Catholicism. Collections are made in England for needy French refugees.
26 November –Jean Garnier, Jesuit church historian, patristic scholar and moral theologian (b. 1612)[6]
10 December –Gaspard Marsy, sculptor (b. 1624 or 1625)
16 December –François Vavasseur, Jesuit humanist and controversialist (b. 1605)
19 December –Marguerite Joly, accused poisoner in thePoison Affair, confessed under torture to several murders, sentenced to be burned at the stake (b. 1637)
21 December –Lacuzon, Franc-Comtois leader (b. 1607)