Events from the year 1711 in

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

Incumbents

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 ...

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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

*3 April –

Clipperton Island Clipperton Island ( or ; ) is an uninhabited, coral atoll in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is from Paris, France, from Papeete, Tahiti, and from Mexico. It is an Overseas France, overseas state private property of France under direct authori ...

in the Pacific is rediscovered by Martin de Chassiron and Michel Du Bocage, who claim it for France and map it. *9 August–12 September –

Siege of Bouchain The siege of Bouchain (9 August – 12 September 1711), following the Passage of the Lines of ''Ne Plus Ultra'' (5 August 1711), was a siege of the War of the Spanish Succession, and the last major victory of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlbor ...

(War of the Spanish Succession): the

Duke of Marlborough General (United Kingdom), General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, (26 May 1650 – 16 June 1722 Old Style and New Style dates, O.S.) was an Engl ...

breaks through the French lines. *11 October – 245 people are killed in a crush on the in

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

, caused when a large crowd returning from a festival on the other side of the

Rhône The Rhône ( , ; wae, Rotten ; frp, Rôno ; oc, Ròse ) is a major river in France and Switzerland, rising in the Alps and flowing west and south through Lake Geneva and southeastern France before discharging into the Mediterranean Sea. At Ar ...

becomes trapped against an obstruction in the middle of the bridge caused by a collision between a carriage and a cart.

Births

*23 February – Louis de Brienne de Conflans d'Armentières, general (died 1774) *26 April –

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (; 26 April 17118 September 1780) was a French novelist who wrote the best known version of ''Beauty and the Beast''. Her third husband was the French spy Thomas Pichon (1757–1760). Life and work Christened Ma ...

, writer (died 1780) *22 May –

Guillaume du Tillot Léon Guillaume (du) Tillot (Bayonne, 22 May 1711 — Paris, 1774) was a French politician infused with liberal ideals of the Enlightenment, who from 1759 was the minister of the Duchy of Parma under Philip, Duke of Parma and his wife Princess Lou ...

, politician (died 1774) *7 June – François Jacquier, Franciscan mathematician and physicist (died 1788) *12 June –

Louis Legrand Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand (29 September 1863 – 1951) was a French artist, known especially for his aquatint engravings, which were sometimes erotic. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his work in 1906. Life Legrand was born in the ...

, Sulpician priest and theologian (died 1780) *26 July –

Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne (26 July 1711, Paris - 27 September 1778, Paris) was a French architect. He was the illegitimate son of Jacques Hardouin-Mansart, comte de Sagonne, by his mistress Madeleine Duguesny - Jacques and Madeleine marri ...

, architect (died 1778) *29 July –

Claude-Adrien Nonnotte Claude-Adrien Nonnotte (born in Besançon, 29 July 1711; died there, 3 September 1793) was a French Society of Jesus, Jesuit controversialist, best known for his writings against Voltaire. At nineteen he entered the Society of Jesus and preached ...

, writer (died 1793) *19 August –

Gabriel de Solages Gabriel de Solages (19 August 1711 – 28 July 1799) was a French soldier and industrialist. After serving in Italy, Germany and Bohemia he began exploiting coal mines on the family property near Carmaux in the Tarn (department), Tarn department of ...

, soldier and industrialist (died 1799) *2 September –

Noël Hallé Noël Hallé (2 September 1711, Paris – 5 June 1781, Paris) was a French painter, draftsman and printmaker. He was born into a family of artists, the son of Claude-Guy Hallé. Hallé took the Prix de Rome in 1736. He studied at the Fren ...

, painter, draughtsman and printmaker (died 1781) *23 September – Louis Nicolas Victor de Félix d'Ollières, Marshal of France (died 1775) *21 October – Armand-Jérôme Bignon, lawyer (died 1772) *25 December –

Jean-Joseph de Mondonville Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (, 25 December 1711 (baptised) – 8 October 1772), also known as Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, was a French violinist and composer. He was a younger contemporary of Jean-Philippe Rameau and enjoyed great succes ...

, composer and violinist (died 1772)

Deaths

*24 January –

Jean Bérain the Elder Jean Berain the Elder (1640 – 24 January 1711) was a draughtsman and designer, painter and engraver of ornament, the artistic force in the Royal office of the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi where all the designs originated for court spectacle, from f� ...

, draughtsman, designer, painter and engraver (born 1640) *27 January –

Antoine de Pas de Feuquières Antoine de Pas, Marquis de Feuquières (16 April 1648 – 27 January 1711) was a French writer and soldier, who served in the wars of Louis XIV. He was the son of diplomat Isaac de Feuquières and grandson of Isaac Manasses de Pas, Marquis de ...

, soldier (born 1648) *26 February – Claude Frassen, theologian and philosopher (born 1620) *13 March –

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (; 1 November 1636 – 13 March 1711), often known simply as Boileau (, ), was a French poet and critic. He did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, in the same way that Blaise Pascal did to reform the ...

, poet and critic (born 1636) *29 March – Gabriel Gerberon, Jansenist monk (born 1628) *11 April – François Lamy, Benedictine theologian (born 1636) *14 April –

Louis, Grand Dauphin Louis, Dauphin of France (1 November 1661 – 14 April 1711), commonly known as Grand Dauphin, was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Louis XIV and his spouse, Maria Theresa of Spain. He became known as the Grand Dauphin after the birth of h ...

, son of Louis XIV (born 1661) *17 April – Louis Carré, mathematician (born 1663) *4 May –

Princess Élisabeth Charlotte of Lorraine Élisabeth Charlotte Gabrièle of Lorraine (21 October 1700 – 4 May 1711) was a Princess of Lorraine. She died of smallpox aged 10. She was the Titular Abbess of Remiremont. Biography Élisabeth Charlotte Gabrièle de Lorraine was born at ...

(born 1700) *31 August – Jean Le Pelletier, polygraph and alchemist (born 1633) *3 September –

Élisabeth Sophie Chéron Élisabeth Sophie Chéron (3 October 1648, in Paris – 3 September 1711, in Paris) is remembered today primarily as a French painter, but she was a renaissance woman, acclaimed in her lifetime as a gifted poet, musician, artist, and academician. ...

, painter, musician and poet (born 1648) *14 September –

Claude Aveneau Claude Aveneau (December 25, 1650 in Laval, France – September 14, 1711 in Quebec) was a Jesuit missionary in New France. Background Aveneau entered the novitiate in Paris in 1669. In 1671 he began teaching at the Jesuit college in Arras. ...

, missionary (born 1650) *30 November –

Claudine Françoise Mignot Claudine Françoise Mignot (20 January 1624 – 30 November 1711) was a French adventuress born near Grenoble, at Meylan. She was commonly called "Marie". Biography At the age of sixteen, she attracted the notice of the secretary Pierre d ...

, adventuress (born 1624) *Full date missing –

Étienne Baudet Étienne Baudet, an eminent French engraver, was born at Vineuil, in the department of Loir-et-Cher, about 1636. He was a pupil of Sébastien Bourdon and Cornelis Bloemaert, and afterwards went to Rome, and appears to have adopted the manner o ...

, engraver (born 1636)

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