1693 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XIV

Events

• 27 June - Battle of Lagos
• 29 July - Battle of Landen
• 4 October - Battle of Marsaglia

Births

• 10 November - Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière, governor

Deaths

• 8 January - Marguerite de la Sablière, salonist and polymath
• 7 February - Paul Pellisson, writer
• 9 April - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, memoirist
• 3 May - Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, courtier
• 12 September - Gabrielle de Rochechouart de Mortemart, noblewoman
• 16 December - Jacques Rousseau, painter

Full date unknown

• Henri Justel, scholar and administrator
• François Duchesne, historian
• François de Poilly, engraver