1711 in France

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Events from the year 1711 in France

Incumbents

Monarch – Louis XIV

9 August to 12 September – Siege of Bouchain

26 April – Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, author (died 1780)

16 June – François-Louis de Pourroy de Lauberivière, bishop (died 1740)

2 September – Noël Hallé, painter (died 1781)

15 October – Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine, princess (died 1741)

21 October – Armand-Jérôme Bignon, lawyer and royal librarian (died 1772)

Pierre François Tardieu, engraver (died 1771)

Marie Durand, protestant martyr (d. 1776)

27 January – Antoine de Pas de Feuquières, soldier (born 1648)

26 February – Claude Frassen, theologian and philosopher (born 1620)

13 March – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, poet and critic (born 1636).

4 May – Princess Élisabeth Charlotte of Lorraine (born 1700)

30 November – Claudine Françoise Mignot, adventuress (born 1624)

Louis Carré, mathematician (born 1663)

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