1711 in France explained

Events from the year 1711 in France

Incumbents

3 April - Clipperton Island in the Pacific is rediscovered by Martin de Chassiron and Michel Du Bocage, who claim it for France and map it.
9 August - 12 September - Siege of Bouchain (War of the Spanish Succession): the Duke of Marlborough breaks through the French lines.
11 October - 245 people are killed in a crush on the in Lyon, caused when a large crowd returning from a festival on the other side of the Rhône becomes trapped against an obstruction in the middle of the bridge caused by a collision between a carriage and a cart.

23 February - Louis de Brienne de Conflans d'Armentières, general (died 1774)
26 April - Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, writer (died 1780)
22 May - Guillaume du Tillot, politician (died 1774)
7 June - François Jacquier, Franciscan mathematician and physicist (died 1788)
12 June - Louis Legrand, Sulpician priest and theologian (died 1780)
26 July - Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne, architect (died 1778)
29 July - Claude-Adrien Nonnotte, writer (died 1793)
19 August - Gabriel de Solages, soldier and industrialist (died 1799)
2 September - Noël Hallé, painter, draughtsman and printmaker (died 1781)
23 September - Louis Nicolas Victor de Félix d'Ollières, Marshal of France (died 1775)
21 October - Armand-Jérôme Bignon, lawyer (died 1772)
25 December - Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, composer and violinist (died 1772)

24 January - Jean Bérain the Elder, draughtsman, designer, painter and engraver (born 1640)
27 January - Antoine de Pas de Feuquières, soldier (born 1648)
26 February - Claude Frassen, theologian and philosopher (born 1620)
13 March - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, poet and critic (born 1636)^[2]
29 March - Gabriel Gerberon, Jansenist monk (born 1628)
11 April - François Lamy, Benedictine theologian (born 1636)
14 April - Louis, Grand Dauphin, son of Louis XIV (born 1661)
17 April - Louis Carré, mathematician (born 1663)
4 May - Princess Élisabeth Charlotte of Lorraine (born 1700)
31 August - Jean Le Pelletier, polygraph and alchemist (born 1633)
3 September - Élisabeth Sophie Chéron, painter, musician and poet (born 1648)
14 September - Claude Aveneau, missionary (born 1650)
30 November - Claudine Françoise Mignot, adventuress (born 1624)
Full date missing - Étienne Baudet, engraver (born 1636)

Web site: BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715) . www.bbc.co.uk . 9 June 2022.
Encyclopedia: Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas. 581 . . 3 . 1915 . 2 . Blangstrup, Chr. . Christian Blangstrup . J. H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel . Copenhagen . da . 2015-08-19 .