page_title: Timeline of Paris
section_title: The Paris of Louis XIV
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Paris / 17th century / The Paris of Louis XIV
caption_attribution_description: English: Setting for Act 5 of Le Martyre de Sainte Catherine, a French play by Jean Puget de la Serre (1600-1665), first produced in 1643 at the Hôtel de Bourgogne
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Paris, France.
context_section_description: 1643
  14 May – Death of Louis XIII in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Louis XIV, his four-and-a-half-year-old son, becomes king, under the regency of his mother, Anne of Austria, and the influence of Cardinal Mazarin.
  30 June – Molière, Madeleine Béjart and several others found the Illustre Théâtre on rue de la Perle, in the Marais.
  7 October – The young king and his court move from the Louvre to the Palais-Royal.
  First coffee house or café opens in Paris, but is not profitable and closes. The first successful café does not arrive until 1672.
  11 October – Cardinal Mazarin moves into the Hôtel Tubeuf on rue des Petits-Champs, next to the Palais-Royal, and opens his personal library to scholars. In 1682, he donated his library to the Collège des Quatre-Nations, where it remains today as the Bibliothèque Mazarine ("Mazarine Library").
  1644
  1 January – The theater company of Molière and Madeleine Béjart begins performing in the tennis court of Mestayers (jeu de paume des Mestayers). Molière goes deeply into debt to support the company, and is imprisoned in August 1645 in the Grand Châtelet.
  1645
  28 February – First performance of an opera in Paris, La Finita Panza by Marco Marazzoli, in the hall of the Palais-Royal.
  1646
  20 February – Construction begins of the church of Saint-Sulpice, not completed until 1788.
  1647
  Pont au Change rebuilt by architect Androuet du Cerceau. 
  1648
  27 January – Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture founded by Charles Le Brun and Eustache Le Sueur.
  26 August – Cardinal Mazarin has the leaders of the Parlement, or law courts,  of Paris arrested, because they have refused to enforce his edicts on fiscal policy and taxes. This begins the insurrection of Paris against the royal government known as the Fronde parlementaire (1648–1649).
  27 August – The Day of the Barricades. More than twelve hundred barricades erected in Paris against the royal authorities, and prisoners seized by Mazarin are liberated on the 29th.
  13 September – King Louis XIV, the Regent Queen Mother and Mazarin leave Paris for Rueil, then Saint-Germain-en-Laye. After negotiations with the Parlement, they accept the Parlement's propositions and return to Paris on October 30.
  1649
  5–6 January – The King and Queen Mother flee Paris again to Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
  11 January – The leaders of the Fronde take an oath to end the rule of Cardinal Mazarin. The royal army led by Condé, blockades Paris.
  14 January – A major flood inundates Paris; the Marais and faubourg Saint-Antoine, Saint-Germain, and Île Saint-Louis are under water.
  11 March – Under the Paix de Rueil, the King and court are allowed to return to Paris, in exchange for amnesty for the Frondeurs.
  19 September – City hall runs out of funds. City workers go unpaid, and riots break out sporadically through the end of year.
  27 August – The Day of the Barricades. More than twelve hundred barricades erected in Paris streets against the royal authorities, and prisoners seized by Mazarin are liberated on the 29th.
  13 September – The King, Queen Mother and Mazarin leave Paris for Rueil, then Saint-Germain-en-Laye. After negotiations with the Parlement, they accept its propositions and return to Paris on October 30. 
  1650
  Mineral springs discovered at Passy, at the present-day rue des Eaux. The mineral baths there remain fashionable until the end of the 19th century.
  18 January – Mazarin orders the arrest of Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, le Grand Condé, who has turned against the government, and of the Fronde of the Parlement.
  1651
  21 January – A flood carries away half of the Pont de la Tournelle and one arch of the Pont au Change.
  30 January – The Fronde of the princes (Fronde des Princes, 1650–1653), led by Condé, and Fronde of the Paris Parlement join together against Mazarin.
  6–7 January – Cardinal Mazarin flees from Paris.
  1652
  11 April – Condé, leader of the Fronde of princes, enters Paris, pursued by the royal army.
  2 July – The Battle of Paris. The royal army, led by Turenne, defeats the army of Condé outside the city; Condé and his men take refuge inside the city walls.
  4 Jul
caption: Theater production at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in 1643
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