1696 in France

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Events from the year 1696 in France

Incumbents

Monarch – Louis XIV

31 July – Dumont de Montigny, colonial officer (died 1760)

Esprit Antoine Blanchard, musician (died 1770).

14 March – Jean Domat, jurisconsult (born 1625)

14 April – Isaac de l'Ostal de Saint-Martin, chevalier (born c.1629)

17 April – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, aristocrat (born 1626)

27 April – Simon Foucher, polemic philosopher (born 1644)

11 May – Jean de La Bruyère, philosopher and moralist (born 1645)

29 June – Michel Lambert, composer (born 1610)

28 July – Charles Colbert, marquis de Croissy, statesman and diplomat (born 1625)

21 December – Louise Moillon, painter (born 1610)

Antoine Varillas, historian (born 1624)

Jean Richer, astronomer (born 1630)

Jean Baptiste Mathey, architect and painer (born 1630)

Médard des Groseilliers, explorer (born 1618)

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