1717 in France

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Events from the year 1717 in France

Incumbents[]

  • MonarchLouis XV
  • Regent: Philip II of Orleans

Events[]

  • 4 January (24 December 1716 OS) – Triple Alliance treaty between France, the Dutch Republic and Great Britain against Spain

Arts and culture[]

  • 27 March – Actress Adrienne Lecouvreur is invited to join the Comédie-Française in Paris, performing first in the title rôle of Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon's Electre
  • 16 May – Voltaire is sentenced to eleven months in the Bastille and banished from Paris for criticizing the Duc D'Orléans;[1] while in prison he writes his first play, Oedipe ("Oedipus")
  • The last two volumes of Antoine Galland's Les mille et une nuits are published posthumously in Lyon of the first translation of One Thousand and One Nights into a European language, including the first translation of the story of Ali Baba

Births[]

Deaths[]

Jean-Baptiste Santerre, self-portrait
  • 3 March – Pierre Allix, Protestant clergyman (born 1641)
  • 5 March – François de Callières, diplomat, member of the Académie française (born 1645)
  • 3 April – Jacques Ozanam, mathematician (born 1640)
  • 5 April – Jean Jouvenet, painter (born 1644)
  • 8 April – Antoine Benoist, painter and sculptor (born 1632)
  • 17 May – Bon Boullogne, painter (born 1649)[2]
  • 9 June – Jeanne Guyon, mystic (born 1648)
  • 11 June – Louis de Carrières, priest and Bible commentator (born 1662)
  • 29 June – Augustin le Gardeur de Courtemanche, soldier and ambassador (born 1663)
  • 13 August – Nicolas Perrot, explorer, fur trader and diplomat (born c.1644)
  • September – Casimir Oudin, monk and librarian (born 1638)
  • October – Philippe Pastour de Costebelle, naval officer and Governor of Newfoundland (born 1661)
  • 21 November – Jean-Baptiste Santerre, painter (born 1658)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ This Day in History.
  2. ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1915). "Boullogne". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 3 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J. H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. Retrieved 2015-09-01.


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