1703 in France explained

Events from the year 1703 in France

Incumbents

Monarch - Louis XIV^[1]

Events

February 20–March 10 - War of the Spanish Succession: Siege of Kehl - French forces under the command of the Duc de Villars capture the fortress of the Holy Roman Empire at Kehl, opposite Strasbourg on the Rhine.
March 19–May 15 - War of the Spanish Succession: Siege of Guadeloupe - An English expeditionary force fails to capture the island capital Basse-Terre in the French West Indies.^[2]
March 21 - Jeanne Guyon is freed in Paris after more than seven years imprisonment for heresy in the Bastille.
September 7 - War of the Spanish Succession: The town of Breisach is retaken for France by Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard.
October 11 - Nine Roman Catholic residents of the village of Sainte-Cécile-d'Andorge are massacred by a mob of more than 800 Huguenot Protestants, the Camisards. A reprisal against Protestants in the nearby village of Branoux is made less than three weeks later.
October 30 - More than 47 Huguenots in the village of Branoux-les-Taillades are massacred by Roman Catholic vigilantes in reprisal for the October 11 attack in Sainte-Cécile, 3.3 km away.
November 15 - War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Speyerbach (in modern-day Germany) - The French defeat a German relief army, allowing the French to take the besieged town of Landau two days later, for which Tallard is made a Marshal of France.
November 19 - The Man in the Iron Mask dies in the Bastille.

Births

3 January - Daniel-Charles Trudaine, administrator and civil engineer (died 1769)
8 January - André Levret, obstetrician (died 1780)
5 January - Paul d'Albert de Luynes, archbishop (died 1788)
15 January - Henriette Louise de Bourbon, princess (died 1772)
22 January - Antoine Walsh, slave trader and Jacobite (died 1763)
31 January - André-Joseph Panckoucke, author and bookseller (died 1753)
3 February - Jean Philippe de Bela, military figure and Basque writer and historian (died 1796)
4 February - Jean Saas, historian and bibliographer (died 1774)
3 March - Charles-Joseph Natoire, rococo painter (died 1777)
4 March - Nicolas René Berryer, magistrate and politician (died 1762)
8 April - Benoît-Joseph Boussu, violin maker (died 1773)
10 April - Pierre Daubenton, lawyer (died 1776)
18 May - Jean Daullé, engraver (died 1763)
20 May - René Lièvre de Besançon, archer (died 1739)
21 June - Joseph Lieutaud, physician (died 1780)
4 August - Louis, Duke of Orléans, member of the royal family (died 1752)
15 September - Guillaume-François Rouelle, chemist (d. 1770)
29 September
- François Boucher, painter (died 1770)
- François Fresneau de La Gataudière, botanist and scientist (died 1770)
16 October - Joachim Faiguet de Villeneuve, economist (died 1781)
28 October - Antoine Deparcieux, mathematician (died 1768)
23 November - Louise Levesque, femme de lettres (died 1743)
25 November - Jean-François Séguier, astronomer and botanist (died 1784)
Charles Clémencet, Benedictine historian (died 1778)

Deaths

16 May - Charles Perrault, author (born 1628)^[3]
26 May - Louis-Hector de Callière, politician, governor of Montreal (born in 1648)
26 July - Gérard Audran, engraver (born 1640)
30 November - Nicolas de Grigny, organist and composer

Notes and References

Web site: BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715) . www.bbc.co.uk . 9 June 2022.
Book: Marley, David. High Tide of Empire (1700-1777). Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the New World, 1492 to the Present. ABC-CLIO. 1998. 225.
Encyclopedia: Perrault, Charles . 7 - 8 . . 19 . 1924 . 2 . Blangstrup, Chr. . Christian Blangstrup . J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel . Copenhagen . da . 17 August 2015 .