1703 in France

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1703
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France

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Decades:
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See also:Other events of 1703
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Events from the year 1703 in France

Incumbents[]

  • MonarchLouis XIV

Events[]

  • The siege of Kehl resulted in a French victory
  • The siege of Guadeloupe – British siege of capital Basse-Terre in the French West Indies

Births[]

  • 3 January – Daniel-Charles Trudaine, administrator and civil engineer (died 1769)
  • 8 January – André Levret, obstetrician (died 1780)
  • 5 January – Paul d'Albert de Luynes, archbishop (died 1788)
  • 15 January – Henriette Louise de Bourbon, princess (died 1772)
  • 22 January – Antoine Walsh, slave trader and Jacobite (died 1763)
  • 31 January – André-Joseph Panckoucke, author and bookseller (died 1753)
  • 3 February – Jean Philippe de Bela, military figure and Basque writer and historian (died 1796)
  • 4 February – Jean Saas, historian and bibliographer (died 1774)
  • 3 March – Charles-Joseph Natoire, rococo painter (died 1777)
  • 4 March – Nicolas René Berryer, magistrate and politician (died 1762)
  • 8 April – Benoît-Joseph Boussu, violin maker (died 1773)
  • 10 April – Pierre Daubenton, lawyer (died 1776)
  • 18 May – Jean Daullé, engraver (died 1763)
  • 20 May – René Lièvre de Besançon, archer (died 1739)
  • 21 June – Joseph Lieutaud, physician (died 1780)
  • 4 August – Louis, Duke of Orléans, member of the royal family (died 1752)
  • 15 September – Guillaume-François Rouelle, chemist (d. 1770)
  • 29 September
  • 16 October – Joachim Faiguet de Villeneuve, economist (died 1781)
  • 28 October – Antoine Deparcieux, mathematician (died 1768)
  • 23 November – Louise Levesque, femme de lettres (died 1743)
  • 25 November – Jean-François Séguier, astronomer and botanist (died 1784)
  • Charles Clémencet, Benedictine historian (died 1778)

Deaths[]

  • 16 May – Charles Perrault, author (born 1628).[1]
  • 26 May – Louis-Hector de Callière, politician, governor of Montreal (born in 1648)
  • 26 July – Gérard Audran, engraver (born 1640)
  • 30 November – Nicolas de Grigny, organist and composer

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1924). "Perrault, Charles". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 19 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. pp. 7–8. Retrieved 17 August 2015.


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