1718 in France explained

Events from the year 1718 in France.

Incumbents

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

Events

• January  - France declares war on Spain, leading to the 2-year War of the Quadruple Alliance.
• May 7  - New Orleans is founded.

• November 18  - Voltaire's first play, Oedipus, premières at the Comédie-Française in Paris. This is his first use of the pseudonym.

Births

• January 29  - Paul Rabaut, Huguenot pastor (d. 1794)
• October 19  - Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (d. 1804)

Deaths

• February 18  - Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (b. 1663)
• April 3  - Jacques Ozanam, mathematician (b. 1640)
• April 27  - Jacques Bernard, theologian (b. 1658)
• May 22  - Gaspard Abeille, lyric and tragic poet (b. 1648)
• June 13  - Louis, Count of Armagnac, noble (b. 1641)
• July 28  - Étienne Baluze, scholar (b. 1630)
• September 12  - Louise de Maisonblanche, illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France (b. 1676)
• October 19  - Alphonse Henri, Count of Harcourt, noble (b. 1646)

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.