1695 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XIV

Events

• 13-15 August - Nine Years' War: Bombardment of Brussels by French troops.
• 1 September - Nine Years' War: France surrenders Namur in the Spanish Netherlands to forces of the Grand Alliance led by King William III of England following the 2-month Siege of Namur.

Births

• 2 May - Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, French architect and painter
• 3 May - Henri Pitot, French engineer
• 26 August - Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault, singer and composer

Deaths

• 4 January - François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, Marshal of France
• 13 April - Jean de la Fontaine, French writer noted for his fables
• 11 June - André Félibien, French architect
• 16 November - Pierre Nicole, French Jansensist
• 8 December - Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist