1719 in France explained

Events from the year 1719 in France

Incumbents

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

Events

• 1718 to 1720  - The Pontcallec Conspiracy
• April 4  - The French army under James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick invades the Basque provinces of Spain, with 20,000 troops crossing into Navarre^[3]
• May 23  - Mississippi Company becomes the Compagnie Perpétuelle des Indes
• June 30  - Berwick begins the Siege of San Sebastian in northern Spain
• August 19  - San Sebastian surrenders to Berwick. Local leaders petition for the surrounding province to be annexed to France, but is later returned to Spain at the Treaty of The Hague

Births

• October 17  - Jacques Cazotte, writer (died 1792)^[4]

Deaths

• March 3  - Jacques-Louis de Valon, soldier and poet (born 1659)
• March 10  - Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond, architect and garden designer (born 1679)
• November 8  - Michel Rolle, mathematician (born 1652)

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. Book: Mellersh, H. E. L.. Chronology of World History. 9. ABC-CLIO. 1999. 532.
4. Encyclopedia: Cazotte, Jacques . . 4 . 1916 . 2 . Blangstrup, Chr. . Christian Blangstrup . J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel . Copenhagen . da . 5 September 2015 .