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1704 In France
Events from the year 1704 in France. Incumbents *Monarch: Louis XIV Events * 13 August – War of the Spanish Succession – Battle of Blenheim: Allied troops under John Churchill, the Earl of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeat the Franco-Bavarian army. Births * 12 February – Charles Pinot Duclos, writer (died 1772) * 28 February – Louis Godin, astronomer (died 1760) * 3 August – Catherine-Nicole Lemaure, operatic soprano (died 1786) * 24 June – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, writer (died 1771) Deaths * 2 February – Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital, mathematician (born 1661) * 24 February – Marc-Antoine Charpentier, composer (born 1643) * 12 April – Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, bishop and writer (born 1627) * 13 May – Louis Bourdaloue, Jesuit preacher (born 1632) * 7 July – Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, fur trader and explorer (born c. 1657) * 14 August – Roland Laporte, Protest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis XIV
, house = Bourbon , father = Louis XIII , mother = Anne of Austria , birth_date = , birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France , death_date = , death_place = Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France , burial_date = 9 September 1715 , burial_place = Basilica of Saint-Denis , religion = Catholicism (Gallican Rite) , signature = Louis XIV Signature.svg Louis XIV (Louis Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great () or the Sun King (), was King of France from 14 May 1643 until his death in 1715. His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any sovereign in history whose date is verifiable. Although Louis XIV's France was emblematic of the age of absolutism in Europe, the King surrounded himself with a variety of significant political, military, and cultural figures, such as Bossuet, Colbert, Le Brun, Le Nôtre, Lully, Mazarin, Molière, Racine, Turenne, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1771 In France
Events from the year 1771 in France Incumbents * List of French monarchs, Monarch – Louis XV of France, Louis XV Events Births *3 January – Louis Pierre Édouard, Baron Bignon, diplomat and historian (died 1841) *19 June – Joseph Diaz Gergonne, mathematician and logician (died 1859) *24 June – Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, chemical manufacturer (died 1834 in the United States) *18 August – Louis-François Bertin de Vaux, journalist (died 1842) Deaths *20 February – Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, geophysicist, astronomer and chronobiologist (born 1678) *27 December – Henri Pitot, hydraulic engineer, inventor of the pitot tube (born 1695) See also References 1770s in France {{France-hist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Laporte
Roland Laporte (1675 – 14 August 1704), better known as Roland, was a Camisard leader who was born at Mas Soubeyran ( Gard) in a cottage that has become the property of the Socité de l'Histoire du Protestantisme français and contains relics of the hero. He was a nephew of Laporte, the Camisard leader, who was hunted down and shot in October 1702, and became the leader of a band of a thousand men which he formed into a disciplined army with magazines, arsenals and hospitals. For daring in action and rapidity of movement he was second only to Jean Cavalier. Both leaders in 1702 secured entrance to the town of Sauve under the pretence of being royal officers, burnt the church and carried off provisions and ammunition for their forces. Roland, who called himself general of the children of God, terrorized the country between Nîmes and Alais, burning churches and houses, and slaying those suspected of hostility against the Huguenots, though without personally taking any part o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1657 In France
Events from the year 1657 in France Incumbents * Monarch – Louis XIV Events *March – The Treaty of Paris allied the English Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell with King Louis XIV of France against King Philip IV of Spain. *The 54th Infantry Regiment was formed. Births *11 February – Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, writer (d. 1757) *25 May – Henri-Pons de Thiard de Bissy, bishop and cardinal (d. 1737) *16 June – Louis Ellies Dupin, ecclesiastical historian (d. 1719) *24 July – Jean Mathieu de Chazelles, hydrographer (d. 1710) *7 August – Henri Basnage de Beauval, Huguenot historian, lexicographer and journal editor (d. 1710) *9 August – Pierre-Étienne Monnot, sculptor (d. 1733) *15 December – Michel Richard Delalande, composer and organist (d. 1726) Full date missing *Jean-François de Chamillart, churchman (d. 1714) * Anne Ferrand, writer (d. 1740) *Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, fur trader and explorer (d. 1704) *Jean-Baptiste Nolin, cartographer and engraver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre-Charles Le Sueur
Pierre-Charles Le Sueur (c. 1657, Artois, France – 17 July 1704, Havana, Cuba) was a French fur trader and explorer in North America, recognized as the first known European to explore the Minnesota River valley. Le Sueur came to Canada with the Jesuits to their mission at Sault Sainte Marie, but very soon he turned himself to fur trade and became a coureur des bois. He was fluent in several Native languages, which was crucial to his success in trade. Around 1683, he received some samples of bluish clay from the middle reaches of a tributary of the Mississippi and took it back to France to be analyzed. A chemist, Alexandre L'Huillier, deemed it to be copper ore. Le Sueur returned to New France to mine this ore, but was waylayed by, among other things, a prison term for overreaching his trade privileges. He was present at the formal assertion of French sovereignty of Canada, declared in 1689 by Nicholas Perrot at Green Bay. Eventually, however, he was given a royal commiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1632 In France
Events from the year 1632 in France. Incumbents *Monarch: Louis XIII Events * * * * * * * * March 29 – The Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629. * July 23 – Three hundred colonists for New France depart Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, Dieppe. * September 1 – A rebellion against French king Louis XIII Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown ... is crushed at the Battle of Castelnaudary. The leader of the rebellion, Gaston, Duke of Orléans, the brother of Louis XIII, surrenders. * September 9 – Thirty Years' War – Besieged by Wallenstein at Nuremberg, Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus attempts to break the siege, but is defeated in the Battle of the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Bourdaloue
Louis Bourdaloue (20 August 1632 – 13 May 1704) was a French Jesuit and preacher. Biography He was born in Bourges. At the age of sixteen he entered the Society of Jesus, and was appointed successively professor of rhetoric, philosophy and moral theology, in various Jesuit colleges. His success as a preacher in the provinces led his superiors to call him to Paris in 1669 to occupy for a year the pulpit of the church of St. Louis.Now called ''Eglise St.-Paul-St-Louis'', Metro St. Paul. To the left as one enters the church there is a large plaque dedicated to Bourdaloue on a pillar in front of the church. Owing to his eloquence he was speedily ranked in popular estimation with Corneille, Racine, and the other leading figures during the height of Louis XIV's reign. He preached at the court of Versailles during the Advent of 1670 and the Lent of 1672, and was subsequently called again to deliver the Lenten course of sermons in 1674, 1675, 1680 and 1682, and the Advent sermons of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1627 In France
Events from the year 1627 in France Incumbents * Monarch – Louis XIII Events *Anglo-French War (1627–1629) *Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré *Siege of La Rochelle Births *27 September – Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, bishop (died 1704) Full date missing *Hector d'Andigné de Grandfontaine, governor (died 1696) Deaths Full date missing *Jacques Mauduit, composer (born 1557) *François Savary de Brèves, ambassador and orientalist (born 1560) *Charles Loyseau, lawyer (born 1564) * Marie Vernier, actress (born c.1590) *Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier Marie de Bourbon (15 October 1605 – 4 June 1627), Duchess of Montpensier, and Duchess of Orléans by marriage, was a French noblewoman and one of the last members of the House of Bourbon-Montpensier. Her parents were Henri de Bourbon, ''Du ..., noblewoman (born 1605) See also References 1620s in France {{France-hist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
Jacques-Bénigne Lignel Bossuet (; 27 September 1627 – 12 April 1704) was a French bishop and theologian, renowned for his sermons and other addresses. He has been considered by many to be one of the most brilliant orators of all time and a masterly French stylist. Court preacher to Louis XIV of France, Bossuet was a strong advocate of political absolutism and the divine right of kings. He argued that government was divinely ordained and that kings received sovereign power from God. He was also an important courtier and politician. The works best known to English speakers are three great orations delivered at the funerals of Queen Henrietta Maria, widow of Charles I of England (1669), of her daughter Henriette, Duchess of Orléans (1670), and of the outstanding military commander ''le Grand Condé'' (1687). His work ''Discours sur l'histoire universelle'' ( ''Discourse on Universal History'' 1681) has been regarded by many Catholics as an actualization or new version of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1643 In France
Events from the year 1643 in France Incumbents * Monarch – Louis XIII (until 14 May); then Louis XIV *Regent: Anne of Austria (from 14 May) Events *14 May – Louis XIII dies, and Louis XIV becomes King of France. *19 May – Battle of Rocroi Births Full date missing *Jean Chapelain, traveler (died 1713) *Louis Moréri, priest and encyclopedist (died 1680) *Henri Jules, Prince of Condé (died 1709) Deaths *14 May – Louis XIII of France (born 1601) Full date missing *Pierre Hérigone, mathematician and astronomer (born 1580) *Jean du Vergier de Hauranne Jean du Vergier de Hauranne, the Abbé (Abbot) of Saint-Cyran, (1581 – 6 October 1643) was a French Catholic priest who introduced Jansenism into France. Life Born in the city of Bayonne to a noble family, Vergier studied theology at the Catho ..., Catholic priest (born 1581) * Henri Spondanus, jurist and historian (born 1568) * Étienne de la Croix, Jesuit missionary and writer (born 1579) See also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (; 1643 – 24 February 1704) was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV. One of his most famous works is the main theme from the prelude of his ''Te Deum'', ''Marche en rondeau''. This theme is still used today as a fanfare during television broadcasts of the Eurovision Network, the European Broadcasting Union. Marc-Antoine Charpentier dominated the Baroque musical scene in seventeenth century France because of the quality of his prolific output. He mastered all genres, and his skill in writing sacred vocal music was especially hailed by his contemporaries. He began his career by going to Italy, there he fell under the influence of Giacomo Carissimi as well as other Italian composers, perhaps Domenico Mazzocchi. He would remain marked by the Italian style and become the only one with Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville in France to approach the oratorio. In 1670, he became a master of music (composer and singer) in the service of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1661 In France
Events from the year 1661 in France Incumbents * Monarch – Louis XIV Events *The Paris Opera Ballet established *The Académie Royale de Danse established Births * 1 November – Louis, Grand Dauphin, heir apparent to the throne (died 1711) Full date missing *Daniel d'Auger de Subercase, naval officer (died 1732) Deaths Full date missing *Girard Desargues, mathematician (born 1591) *René Menard, Jesuit missionary (born 1605) *Louis Couperin, composer (born c.1626) *Georges de Brébeuf Georges de Brébeuf () (1618 – 1661) was a French poet and translator best known for his verse translation of Lucan's ''Pharsalia'' (1654) which was warmly received by Pierre Corneille, but which was ridiculed by Nicolas Boileau in his ''Art p ..., poet (born 1618) See also References 1660s in France {{France-hist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
