1700 in France explained

Events from the year 1700 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch  - Louis XIV^[1]

Events

• 24 March  - The Treaty of London is signed between France, England and the Dutch Republic.^[2]
• 15 November  - Louis XIV of France accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou of the House of Bourbon, who becomes Philip V of Spain (in accordance with the will of Charles II of Spain), thus triggering the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714).^[3]

Births

• 6 September  - Claude-Nicolas Le Cat, surgeon (died 1768)^[4]
• 21 October  - Princess Élisabeth Charlotte of Lorraine (died 1711)
• 19 November  - Jean-Antoine Nollet, clergyman and physicist (died 1770)

Full date missing

• Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, architect (died 1771)^[5]

Deaths

• 6 January  - Charles-Félix de Galéan, aristocrat and Lieutenant-General (born 1620)
• 9 August  - Jean-Baptiste Tuby, Italian-born sculptor (born 1635)
• 15 September  - André Le Nôtre landscape architect (born 1613)
• 23 October  - Anne Marie de Bourbon, princess (born 1675)
• 13 November  - Louis Guittar, pirate, hanged in London
• 30 November  - Armande Béjart, actress (born 1640)

Full date missing

• Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, composer and violinist (born c.1640)
• Jean Castaing, engineer, inventor of the castaing machine

Notes and References

1. Web site: BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715) . www.bbc.co.uk . 9 June 2022.
2. Web site: The House Laws of the German Habsburgs. 2011-11-21.
3. Book: Schoell, Maximilian Samson Friedrich. Cours d'histoire des états européens depuis le bouleversement de l'Empire romain d'Occident jusqu'en 1789. 7. de l'imprimerie royale et chez Duncker et Humblot. 1832. 306. Google Books. 2023-03-19.
4. Web site: Le Cat, Claude-Nicolas. Encyclopedia.com . 18 August 2015.
5. Web site: Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli. saint-petersburg.com/. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190829235216/http://www.saint-petersburg.com/famous-people/francesco-rastrelli/. 2019-08-29. 2020-03-28.