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Nicolas de Largillière
1656Oct, 10

Nicolas de Largillière

Nicolas de Largillière, French painter and academic (d. 1746)
Nicolas de Largillière (French: [nikɔla də laʁʒijiɛʁ]; 10 October 1656 – 20 March 1746) was a French portrait painter, born in Paris.

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    Lettres provinciales

    Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
  • 30Jul

    Battle of Warsaw (1656)

    Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.
  • 14Oct

    Puritanism

    Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.