• Source: 1700 in France

      • Events from the year 1700 in France


      Incumbents


      Monarch – Louis XIV


      Events


      24 March – The Treaty of London is signed between France, England and the Dutch Republic.
      15 November – Louis XIV of France accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou of the House of Bourbon, who becomes Philip V of Spain (in accordance with the will of Charles II of Spain), thus triggering the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714).


      Births


      6 September – Claude-Nicolas Le Cat, surgeon (died 1768)
      21 October – Princess Élisabeth Charlotte of Lorraine (died 1711)
      19 November – Jean-Antoine Nollet, clergyman and physicist (died 1770)


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      Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, architect (died 1771)


      Deaths



      6 January – Charles-Félix de Galéan, aristocrat and Lieutenant-General (born 1620)
      9 August – Jean-Baptiste Tuby, Italian-born sculptor (born 1635)
      15 September – André Le Nôtre landscape architect (born 1613)
      23 October – Anne Marie de Bourbon, princess (born 1675)
      13 November – Louis Guittar, pirate, hanged in London
      30 November – Armande Béjart, actress (born 1640)


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      Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, composer and violinist (born c.1640)
      Jean Castaing, engineer, inventor of the castaing machine


      See also




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