1687 in France explained

Events from the year 1687 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch  - Louis XIV^[1]

Events

• March  - Embassy of Loubère-Céberet to Siam, consisting of a French expeditionary force of 1,361 soldiers, missionaries, envoys and crews aboard five warships.
• Fort Denonville established

Births

• 15 February  - Philippe Charles de La Fare, a Marshal of France (d. 1752)^[2]
• 8 May – Jean Henri Desmercières, French-Danish merchant, banker and landowner (d. 1778)^[3]

Deaths

• 18 March  - François Collignon, engraver, print-seller and publisher (born c.1609)
• 19 March  - René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, explorer (b. 1643)

Full date missing

• Charles de Grimaldi-Régusse, aristocrat, landowner and politician (b. 1612)

Notes and References

1. Web site: BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715) . www.bbc.co.uk . 9 June 2022.
2. Web site: Philippe Charles de La Fare . roglo.eu . 26 August 2017 .
3. Web site: Jean Henri Desmerciéres. da. Dansk Biografisk Leksikon. 26 August 2017.