Events from the year 1717 in France
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Incumbents
edit- Monarch – Louis XV[1]
- Regent: Philip II of Orleans[2]
Events
edit- 4 January (24 December 1716 OS) – Triple Alliance treaty between France, the Dutch Republic and Great Britain against Spain
Arts and culture
edit- 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;[3] 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
edit- 18 January – Jean-François-Marie de Surville, trader and navigator (died 1770)
- 8 May – Charles Guillaume Le Normant d'Étiolles, official, husband of Madame de Pompadour (died 1799)
- 20 June – Jacques Saly, sculptor (died 1776)
- 27 June – Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, botanist (died 1799)
- 13 August – Louis François, Prince of Conti, nobleman, military leader (died 1776)
- 15 August – Louis Carrogis Carmontelle, dramatist (died 1806)
- 5 October – Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, mistress of King Louis XV of France (died 1744)
- 16 November – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician and encyclopædist (died 1783)
- 29 December – Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, statesman and diplomat (died 1785)
- full date unknown – Claude Humbert Piarron de Chamousset, philanthropist (died 1773)
Deaths
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- 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)[4]
- 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
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References
edit- ^ "BBC - History - King Louis XV". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- ^ Semmens, Richard Templar (2004). The Bals Publics at the Paris Opéra in the Eighteenth Century. Pendragon Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-1-57647-034-3.
- ^ This Day in History.
- ^ 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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