Events from the year 1703 in France

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Events

*The siege of Kehl resulted in a French victory *The

siege of Guadeloupe The siege of Guadeloupe took place from March to May 1703 during the War of the Spanish Succession, when a British expeditionary force led by Christopher Codrington landed on Guadeloupe in the French West Indies, and laid siege to the capital ...

– British siege of capital Basse-Terre in the French West Indies

Births

*3 January –

Daniel-Charles Trudaine Daniel-Charles Trudaine (3 January 1703 – 19 January 1769) was a French administrator and civil engineer. Trudaine was one of the primary developers of the present French road system. He is also known for the monumental ''Atlas de Trudaine'' ( ...

, administrator and civil engineer (died 1769) *8 January – André Levret, obstetrician (died 1780) *5 January –

Paul d'Albert de Luynes Paul d'Albert de Luynes (5 January 1703 – 21 January 1788) was a French prelate. He was elected the seventh occupant of Académie française seat 29 in 1743. Early life Paul d'Albert de Luynes was born on 5 January 1703 in the city of Versail ...

, archbishop (died 1788) *15 January –

Henriette Louise de Bourbon Henriette Louise de Bourbon (Henriette Louise Marie Françoise Gabrielle; 15 January 1703 – 19 September 1772) was a French princess by birth and a member of the House of Bourbon. She was the abbess of Beaumont-lès-Tours Abbey. Biography Ear ...

, princess (died 1772) *22 January –

Antoine Walsh Antoine Vincent Walsh (1703 – 1763), was an Irish shipowner and slave trader operating in Nantes, France, whose family were exiled Jacobites. Early life Antoine Walsh was the son of the Jacobite loyalist Philip Walsh (1666-1708), of Ballynacooly ...

, slave trader and Jacobite (died 1763) *31 January – André-Joseph Panckoucke, author and bookseller (died 1753) *3 February – Jean Philippe de Bela, military figure and Basque writer and historian (died 1796) *4 February – Jean Saas, historian and bibliographer (died 1774) *3 March –

Charles-Joseph Natoire Charles-Joseph Natoire (3 March 1700 – 23 August 1777) was a French painter in the Rococo manner, a pupil of François Lemoyne and director of the French Academy in Rome, 1751–1775. Considered during his lifetime the equal of François Bouc ...

, rococo painter (died 1777) *4 March – Nicolas René Berryer, magistrate and politician (died 1762) *8 April – Benoît-Joseph Boussu, violin maker (died 1773) *10 April –

Pierre Daubenton Pierre Daubenton (10 April 1703 – 14 September 1776) was an 18th-century French lawyer, politician, author and Encyclopédiste. Life He was the son of Jean Daubenton (1669–1736) and Marie Pichenot (* ca. 1680). The naturalist Louis Je ...

, lawyer (died 1776) *18 May –

Jean Daullé Jean Daullé (18 May 1703 – 23 April 1763) was a French engraver. Biography He was the son of Jean Daullé, a silversmith, and his wife, Anne née Dennel. At the age of fourteen, he received training from an engraver named Robart, at the pri ...

, engraver (died 1763) *20 May – René Lièvre de Besançon, archer (died 1739) *21 June –

Joseph Lieutaud Joseph Lieutaud (21 June 1703 – 6 December 1780) was a French physician. Biography Early life Joseph Lieutaud was born on 21 June 1703 at 31 Rue Cardinale in Aix-en-Provence. His father was Jean-Baptiste Lieutaud, a lawyer, and his mother, L ...

, physician (died 1780) *4 August – Louis, Duke of Orléans, member of the royal family (died 1752) *15 September –

Guillaume-François Rouelle Guillaume François Rouelle (, 15 September 1703 – 3 August 1770) was a French chemist and apothecary. In 1754 he introduced the concept of a base into chemistry as a substance which reacts with an acid to form a salt). He is known as ''l'Aîn ...

, chemist (d.

1770 Events January– March * January 1 – The foundation of Fort George, Bombay is laid by Colonel Keating, principal engineer, on the site of the former Dongri Fort. * February 1 – Thomas Jefferson's home at Shadwell, Virgi ...

) *29 September **

François Boucher François Boucher ( , ; ; 29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories ...

, painter (died 1770) **

François Fresneau de La Gataudière François Fresneau (29 September 1703 – 25 June 1770) was a French botanist and scientist, and is credited for having written the first scientific paper on rubber Rubber, also called India rubber, latex, Amazonian rubber, ''caucho'', or ' ...

, botanist and scientist (died 1770) *16 October –

Joachim Faiguet de Villeneuve Joachim Faiguet de Villeneuve (16 October 1703, Moncontour – 10 November 1781, Néris-les-Bains, Allier) was an 18th-century French economist. Biography First a schoolmaster in Paris and then in the office of Châlons-en-Champagne, Faiguet w ...

, economist (died 1781) *28 October – Antoine Deparcieux, mathematician (died 1768) *23 November –

Louise Levesque Louise Levesque, née Cavelier, (23 November 1703, Rouen – 18 May 1745, Paris) was an 18th-century French femme de lettres. The daughter of a prosecutor at the parlement de Normandie, Louise Cavelier received a good education. At age 20, she ...

, femme de lettres (died 1743) *25 November – Jean-François Séguier, astronomer and botanist (died 1784) *

Charles Clémencet Charles Clémencet (17035 August 1778) was a French Benedictine historian. He was born in Painblanc, in present-day Côte-d'Or, and was one of the authors who helped complete the great chronological work (the usual short form of a long title). H ...

, Benedictine historian (died 1778)

Deaths

*16 May –

Charles Perrault Charles Perrault ( , also , ; 12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was an iconic French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales ...

, author (born 1628) *26 May –

Louis-Hector de Callière Louis-Hector de Callière or Callières (12 November 1648 – 26 May 1703) was a French military officer, who was the governor of Montreal (1684–1699), and the 13th governor of New France from 1698 to 1703. During his tenure as governor of ...

, politician,

governor of Montreal The governor of Montreal was the highest position in Montreal in the 17th century and the 18th century. Prior to the establishment of the 1663 Sovereign Council, the governor of Montreal was appointed by the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal. The ...

(born in 1648) *26 July – Gérard Audran, engraver (born 1640) *30 November – Nicolas de Grigny, organist and composer

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