1717 in France
Events from the year 1717 in France
Incumbents
Events
4 January (24 December 1716 OS ) – Triple Alliance treaty between France, the Dutch Republic and Great Britain against Spain
Arts and culture
Births
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
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)[ 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
References
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