1711 in France

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1711
in
France

  • 1712
  • 1713
  • 1714
  • 1715
  • 1716
Decades:
  • 1690s
  • 1700s
  • 1710s
  • 1720s
  • 1730s
See also:Other events of 1711
History of France  • Timeline  • Years

Events from the year 1711 in France

Incumbents[]

  • MonarchLouis XIV

Events[]

  • 3 April – Clipperton Island in the Pacific is rediscovered by Martin de Chassiron and Michel Du Bocage, who claim it for France and map it.
  • 9 August–12 September – Siege of Bouchain (War of the Spanish Succession): the Duke of Marlborough breaks through the French lines.
  • 11 October – 245 people are killed in a crush on the  [fr] in Lyon, caused when a large crowd returning from a festival on the other side of the Rhône becomes trapped against an obstruction in the middle of the bridge caused by a collision between a carriage and a cart.

Births[]

  • 23 February – Louis de Brienne de Conflans d'Armentières, general (died 1774)
  • 26 April – Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, writer (died 1780)
  • 22 May – Guillaume du Tillot, politician (died 1774)
  • 7 June – François Jacquier, Franciscan mathematician and physicist (died 1788)
  • 12 June – Louis Legrand, Sulpician priest and theologian (died 1780)
  • 26 July – Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne, architect (died 1778)
  • 29 July – Claude-Adrien Nonnotte, writer (died 1793)
  • 19 August – Gabriel de Solages, soldier and industrialist (died 1799)
  • 2 September – Noël Hallé, painter, draughtsman and printmaker (died 1781)
  • 23 September – Louis Nicolas Victor de Félix d'Ollières, Marshal of France (died 1775)
  • 21 October – Armand-Jérôme Bignon, lawyer (died 1772)
  • 25 December – Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, composer and violinist (died 1772)

Deaths[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1915). "Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 3 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J. H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. p. 581. Retrieved 2015-08-19.


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