1700 in France

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Events from the year 1700 in France

Incumbents

Monarch – Louis XIV

6 September – Claude-Nicolas Le Cat, surgeon (died 1768).

21 October – Princess Élisabeth Charlotte of Lorraine (died 1711)

19 November – Jean-Antoine Nollet, clergyman and physicist (died 1770)

Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, architect (died 1771)

15 September – André Le Nôtre landscape architect (born 1613)

23 October – Anne Marie de Bourbon, princess (born 1675)

30 November – Armande Béjart, actress (born 1640)

Jean-Baptiste Tuby, sculptor (born 1635)

Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, composer and violinist (born c.1640)

Jean Castaing, engineer, inventor of the castaing machine

Louis Guittar, pirat

Charles-Félix de Galéan, aristocrat and Lieutenant-General (born 1620)

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