Events from the year 1691 in
France
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Incumbents
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Monarch
A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority ...
–
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 Vers ...
Events
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Battle of Leuze
The Battle of Leuze was a minor Cavalry engagement of the Nine Years' War that took place on 18 September 1691 between a detachment of French and a superior Allied force.
Marshal Luxembourg had been informed that William III of Orange had left f ...
Births
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Gaston-Laurent Coeurdoux
Gaston-Laurent Coeurdoux (; french: Cœurdoux ; 18 December 1691, Bourges, France – 15 June 1779, Pondicherry, French India) was a French Jesuit missionary in South India and a noteworthy Indology, Indologist.
Early training
Cœurdoux entered t ...
, Jesuit missionary (died 1779)
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Charles d'Orléans de Rothelin
Charles d'Orléans de Rothelin (5 August 1691, in Paris – 17 July 1744) was a French churchman, writer, scholar, numismatist and theologian
Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious bel ...
, clergyman (died 1744)
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Joseph-Charles Roettiers
Joseph-Charles Roettiers (13 April 1691 – 14 March 1779) was a noted French engraver and medalist.
Roettiers was born in Paris to Joseph Roettiers (1635–1703). He was a member of the celebrated Roettiers family of engravers, medallists, silve ...
, engraver and medalist (died 1779)
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François Alexandre Pierre de Garsault
François Alexandre Pierre de Garsault was a French botanist, zoologist and painter. de Garsault was born on 16 April 1691 in Aix-en-Provence, France and died 3 August 1778 in Paris, France. de Garsault was a member of the French Academy of Sc ...
, botanist, zoologist and painter (died 1778)
Deaths
Full date missing
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Jean Petitot
Jean Petitot (July 12, 1607 – April 3, 1691) was a Swiss enamel painter, who spent most of his career working for the courts of France and England.
Life
He was born at Geneva, a member of a Burgundian family which had fled from France on acc ...
, painter (born 1607)
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Jean-Jacques Renouard de Villayer Jean-Jacques Renouard, seigneur de Villayer (24 June 1607, Nantes – 5 March 1691, Paris) was a member of the France, French ''Council of State (France), Conseil d'État'', which had been delegated special legal authorities by the absolutist reigni ...
, member of the
Conseil d'État (born 1607)
See also
References
1690s in France
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