1697 in France

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Events from the year 1697 in France

Incumbents

Monarch – Louis XIV

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Blois established

Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, geographer and cartographer (died 1782).

Joseph François Dupleix, governor general of the French establishment in India (died 1763)

Jules, Prince of Soubise, nobleman (died 1724)

Libéral Bruant, architect (born c.1635)

François d'Orbay, draughtsman and architect (born 1634)

Scipion Abeille, surgeon and poet

Ange de Saint Joseph, missionary and linguist (born 1636)

Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella, engraver (born 1636)

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