1693 in France explained

Events from the year 1693 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch  - Louis XIV^[1]

Events

• 27 June  - Battle of Lagos
• 29 July  - Battle of Landen
• 4 October  - Battle of Marsaglia

Births

Full date missing

• Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière, governor (died 1756)

Deaths

Full date missing

• Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, memoirist (born 1618)^[2]
• Jacques Rousseau, painter (born 1630)
• Gabrielle de Rochechouart de Mortemart, noblewoman (born 1633)
• Henri Justel, scholar and administrator (born 1620)
• Paul Pellisson, writer (born 1624)
• Marguerite de la Sablière, salonist and polymath (born c.1640)
• Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, courtier (born 1607)
• François Duchesne, historian (born 1616)
• François de Poilly, engraver (born 1623)

Notes and References

1. Web site: BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715) . www.bbc.co.uk . 9 June 2022.
2. Encyclopedia: Bussy, Roger de Rabutin . . 4 . 1916 . 2 . Blangstrup, Chr. . Christian Blangstrup . J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel . Copenhagen . da . 7 September 2015 .