1681 in France explained

Events from the year 1681 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XIV^[1]

Events

• 15 May – The Canal du Midi is opened officially, as the Canal Royal de Languedoc.^[2]
• 30 September – France annexes the city of Strasbourg, previously a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire.
• The Dragonnades are instituted to intimidate Huguenot families into either leaving France or converting to Catholicism. Collections are made in England for needy French refugees.
• The Port of Honfleur is remodelled by Abraham Duquesne.

Births

• 9 April – Nicolas Edelinck, engraver (d. 1767)
• 11 April – Anne Danican Philidor, musician (d. 1728)
• 26 May – Antoine-François Botot Dangeville, dancing master, dancer and ballet teacher (d. c.1737)
• 31 May – Joseph-François Lafitau, Jesuit missionary, ethnologist, and naturalist (d. 1746)
• 6 October – Charles François de Mondion, architect and military engineer (d. 1733)
• 19 October – Claude Bouhier de Lantenay, clergyman and the second bishop of Dijon (d. 1755)
• 7 November – Isaac-Joseph Berruyer, Jesuit historian (d. 1748)

Full date missing

• Antoine Sartine, French-born financier and Spanish administrator (d. 1744)

Deaths

• 16 January – Olivier Patru, lawyer and writer (b. 1604)
• 24 January – Jean Baptiste Gonet, Dominican theologian (b. c.1616)^[3]
• 6 May – Catherine Trianon, fortune teller and accused poisoner in the famous Poison Affair (b. 1627)
• 23 May – Claude Deschamps, actor and playwright (b. c.1600)
• 28 June – Marie Angélique de Scorailles, noblewoman (b. 1661)
• 15 September – Louise Marie Anne de Bourbon, illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France and his Maîtresse-en-titre, Madame de Montespan (b. 1674)
• 23 September – Pierre Simon Jaillot, sculptor (b. 1631)^{[4] [5]}
• 27 September – Henri de La Ferté-Senneterre, marshal of France and governor of Lorraine (b. 1599)
• 26 November – Jean Garnier, Jesuit church historian, patristic scholar and moral theologian (b. 1612)
• 10 December – Gaspard Marsy, sculptor (b. 1624 or 1625)
• 16 December – François Vavasseur, Jesuit humanist and controversialist (b. 1605)
• 19 December – Marguerite Joly, accused poisoner in the Poison Affair, confessed under torture to several murders, sentenced to be burned at the stake (b. 1637)
• 21 December – Lacuzon, Franc-Comtois leader (b. 1607)

Full date missing

• Laurent Drelincourt, theologian (b. 1626)
• Jacques Gaffarel, scholar and astrologer (b. 1601)
• Louis Phélypeaux, seigneur de La Vrillière, politician (b. 1598)
• Charles Joseph Tricassin, Capuchin theologian
• Pierre Guillaume Néel III, Huguenot (b. 1638)
• December – Charles Cotin, abbé, philosopher and poet (b. 1604)
• after 1681 – Abraham Ragueneau, painter (b. 1623)

Notes and References

1. Web site: BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715) . www.bbc.co.uk . 9 June 2022.
2. Book: Rolt, L. T. C.. L. T. C. Rolt. From Sea to Sea: An Illustrated History of the Canal du Midi. Allen Lane. 1973. London. 0713904712.
3. Web site: Jean Baptiste Gonet . newadvent.org . 21 July 2018 .
4. Web site: Préemption d'un ivoire de Pierre-Simon Jaillot par le Louvre - La Tribune de l'Art. www.latribunedelart.com. fr. 21 July 2018 .
5. Web site: The Crucifixion Jaillot, Pierre Simon V&A Search the Collections. collections.vam.ac.uk. 21 July 2018.