1683 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XIV

Events

Births

• 4 February - Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, explorer of North America
• 28 February - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, scientist
• 23 June - Etienne Fourmont, orientalist
• 25 September - Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer

Deaths

• 10 July - François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian
• 30 July - Maria Theresa of Spain, first wife of Louis XIV
• 6 September - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance