• Source: 1708 in France

      • Events from the year 1708 in France.


      Incumbents


      Monarch: Louis XIV


      Events


      23 March - James Stuart, the "Old Pretender", having sailed from Dunkirk with 5000 French troops, with the intention of invading Britain, attempts to land in the Firth of Forth; the attempt is thwarted by the Royal Navy, under Admiral Byng.


      Births


      10 January - Donat Nonnotte, painter (died 1785)
      26 March - Louis Guillouet, comte d'Orvilliers, admiral (died 1792)
      2 September - André le Breton, publisher (died 1779)


      Deaths


      5 March - Charles Le Gobien, Jesuit writer (born 1653)
      23 April - Jacques Gravier, Jesuit missionary (born 1651)
      11 May - Jules Hardouin Mansart, architect (born 1646)
      28 December - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, botanist (born 1656)


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