In 1650 the Minuet, originally a peasant dance of Poitou, was introduced into Paris and set to music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and danced by the King Louis XIV in public, and would continue to dominate ballroom from that time until the close of the 18th century.

* The French Marquise de Créquy wrote in her book " Souvenirs ", that the tune Grand Dieu Sauve Le Roi, was written by Jean-Baptiste Lully in gratitude for the survival by Louis XIV of an anal fistula operation.

He invited Jean-Baptiste Lully to establish the French opera, and a tumultuous friendship was established between Lully and playwright and actor Molière.

* 1687 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer ( b. 1632 )

Jean-Baptiste Lully was an important composer of this sort of motet.

* 1632 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer ( d. 1687 )

In rivalry with imported Italian opera productions, a separate French tradition was founded by the Italian Jean-Baptiste Lully at the court of King Louis XIV.

In 1673, Thomas Shadwell's Psyche, patterned on the 1671 ' comédie-ballet ' of the same name produced by Molière and Jean-Baptiste Lully.

* Psyché ( opera ), a 1678 opera with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully

* March 22 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer who established opera in France ( b. 1632 )

* November 28 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer ( d. 1687 )

When it was performed in Paris in 1752, it prompted the so-called Querelle des Bouffons (" quarrel of the comic actors ") between supporters of serious French opera by the likes of Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Philippe Rameau and supporters of new Italian comic opera.

* Jean-Baptiste Lully writes his first opera, Cadmus et Hermione.

* Jean-Baptiste Lully Thésée ( opera, 1674 )

Stylistically refined minuets, apart from the social dance context, were introduced — to opera at first — by Jean-Baptiste Lully, who included no less than 92 of them in his theatrical works ( Little 2001 ) and in the late 17th century the minuet was adopted into the suite, such as some of the suites of Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Händel.

As a musical form, however, the so-called French overture begins with the court ballet and operatic overtures of Jean-Baptiste Lully, which he elaborated from a similar, two-section form called Ouverture, found in the French ballets de cour as early as 1640.

The creation of classical ballet as we know it today occurred under Louis XIV, who in his youth was himself an avid dancer and performed in ballets by Pierre Beauchamp and Jean-Baptiste Lully.

But the mention of Watteau should also alert us to the fact that Pierrot, along with his fellow Commedia masks, was beginning to be " poeticized " in this century — that he was beginning to be the subject, not only of poignant folksong (" Au clair de la lune ", sometimes attributed to Lully ), but also of the more ambitious art of Claude Gillot ( Master André's Tomb 1717 ), of Gillot's students Watteau ( Italian Actors 1719 ) and Nicolas Lancret ( Italian Actors near a Fountain 1719 ), of Jean-Baptiste Oudry ( Italian Actors in a Park 1725 ), and of Jean-Honoré Fragonard ( A Boy as Pierrot ).

Campra was one of the leading French opera composers in the period between Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Philippe Rameau.

* Phaëton ( Lully ), a tragédie en musique by Jean-Baptiste Lully

Souzay's repertoire extended from the Baroque works of Jean-Baptiste Lully to 20th-century composers such as Francis Poulenc.

In the tradition of masque, Louis XIV danced in ballets at Versailles with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully.

The English semi-opera which developed in the latter part of the 17th century, a form in which John Dryden and Henry Purcell collaborated, borrows some elements from the masque and further elements from the contemporary courtly French opera of Jean-Baptiste Lully.

From the earliest ballets up to the time of Jean-Baptiste Lully ( 1632 – 1687 ), the music of ballet was indistinguishable from ballroom dance music.

* 1671 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet ( d. 1741 )

* 1651 – Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French educational reformer and Catholic saint ( d. 1719 )

* 1768 – Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal ( d. 1813 )

* 1744 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist ( d. 1829 )

* 1810 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.

* 1725 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter ( d. 1805 )

* 1619 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French politician ( d. 1683 )

* 1773 – Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, French statesman ( d. 1854 )

* 1833 – Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer ( d. 1900 )

* 1774 – Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist ( d. 1862 )

* 1719 – Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French saint ( b. 1651 )

* Jean-Baptiste Muard ( 1809 – 1854 )

# Joseph Bonaparte ( Corte 1768 – Florence 1844 ), King of Naples and Spain, married Julie Clary, sister of Napoleon's childhood sweetheart, Désirée, who was to become the wife of General Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, the later Charles XIV of Sweden.

* 1990 – Jean-Baptiste Maunier, French actor and singer

In the revival movement France held a foremost place, owing to the reputation and convincing power of the orator, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire ( 1802 – 1861 ).

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ( 1744 – 1829 )

* 1583 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist ( d. 1656 )

* 1680 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana ( d. 1767 )

* 1825 – Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe ( d. 1898 )

Triumph of Faith over Idolatry by Jean-Baptiste Théodon ( 1646 – 1713 )

* 1818 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.

* 1677 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French composer ( d. 1745 )

** Louis XIV the Sun King and his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, 1643 – 1715

* 1714 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor ( d. 1785 )

* 1704 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d ' Argens, French writer ( d. 1771 )