1717 in France explained

Events from the year 1717 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch  - Louis XV^[1]
• Regent: Philip II of Orleans^[2]

Events

• 4 January (24 December 1716 OS)  - Triple Alliance treaty between France, the Dutch Republic and Great Britain against Spain

Arts and culture

• 27 March  - Actress Adrienne Lecouvreur is invited to join the Comédie-Française in Paris, performing first in the title rôle of Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon's Electre
• 16 May  - Voltaire is sentenced to eleven months in the Bastille and banished from Paris for criticizing the Duc D'Orléans;^[3] while in prison he writes his first play, Oedipe ("Oedipus")
• The last two volumes of Antoine Galland's Les mille et une nuits are published posthumously in Lyon of the first translation of One Thousand and One Nights into a European language, including the first translation of the story of Ali Baba

Births

• 18 January  - Jean-François-Marie de Surville, trader and navigator (died 1770)
• 8 May  - Charles Guillaume Le Normant d'Étiolles, official, husband of Madame de Pompadour (died 1799)
• 20 June  - Jacques Saly, sculptor (died 1776)
• 27 June  - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, botanist (died 1799)
• 13 August  - Louis François, Prince of Conti, nobleman, military leader (died 1776)
• 15 August  - Louis Carrogis Carmontelle, dramatist (died 1806)
• 5 October  - Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, mistress of King Louis XV of France (died 1744)
• 16 November  - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician and encyclopædist (died 1783)
• 29 December  - Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, statesman and diplomat (died 1785)
• full date unknown  - Claude Humbert Piarron de Chamousset, philanthropist (died 1773)

Deaths

• 3 March  - Pierre Allix, Protestant clergyman (born 1641)
• 5 March  - François de Callières, diplomat, member of the Académie française (born 1645)
• 3 April  - Jacques Ozanam, mathematician (born 1640)
• 5 April  - Jean Jouvenet, painter (born 1644)
• 8 April  - Antoine Benoist, painter and sculptor (born 1632)
• 17 May  - Bon Boullogne, painter (born 1649)^[4]
• 9 June  - Jeanne Guyon, mystic (born 1648)
• 11 June  - Louis de Carrières, priest and Bible commentator (born 1662)
• 29 June  - Augustin le Gardeur de Courtemanche, soldier and ambassador (born 1663)
• 13 August  - Nicolas Perrot, explorer, fur trader and diplomat (born c.1644)
• September  - Casimir Oudin, monk and librarian (born 1638)
• October  - Philippe Pastour de Costebelle, naval officer and Governor of Newfoundland (born 1661)
• 21 November  - Jean-Baptiste Santerre, painter (born 1658)

Notes and References

1. Web site: BBC - History - King Louis XV . www.bbc.co.uk . 17 June 2022.
2. Book: Semmens . Richard Templar . The Bals Publics at the Paris Opéra in the Eighteenth Century . 2004 . Pendragon Press . 978-1-57647-034-3 . 29 . en.
3. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/voltaire-is-imprisoned-in-the-bastille This Day in History.
4. Encyclopedia: Boullogne . . 3 . 1915 . 2 . Blangstrup, Chr. . Christian Blangstrup . J. H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel . Copenhagen . da . 2015-09-01 .