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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] |
