1699 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XIV

Events

• 20 January: Louis XIV gave the French Academy of Sciences its first rules.
• 11 June: France, England and the Dutch Republic agree on the terms of the Treaty of London (1700) for Spain.
• The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture holds the first of a series of salons at the Louvre Palace.

Births

• 26 March: Hubert-François Gravelot, illustrator
• 26 June: Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, salonnière
• 17 August: Bernard de Jussieu, naturalist
• 25 August: Charles Étienne Louis Camus, mathematician and mechanician
• 13 October: Jeanne Quinault, actress and playwright
• 2 November: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, painter
• 25 November: Pierre Subleyras, painter

Full date unknown

• Joseph Galien, professor of philosophy and theology at the University of Avignon, meteorologist, physicist and writer on aeronautics

Deaths

• 20 February: Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, painter
• 21 April: Jean Racine, classic dramatist
• 26 September: Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne, diplomat and minister
• 18 November: Pierre Pomet, pharmacist
• 30 December: Pierre Robert, composer

Full date unknown

• Antoine Le Grand, Cartesian philosopher, in England