1700 in France

Events from the year 1700 in France.

Incumbents

Monarch - Louis XIV

Events

24 March - The Treaty of London is signed between France, England and the Dutch Republic.
15 November - Louis XIV of France accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou of the House of Bourbon, who becomes Philip V of Spain, thus triggering the War of the Spanish Succession.

Births

6 September - Claude-Nicolas Le Cat, surgeon
21 October - Princess Élisabeth Charlotte of Lorraine
19 November - Jean-Antoine Nollet, clergyman and physicist

Full date unknown

Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, architect

Deaths

6 January - Charles-Félix de Galéan, aristocrat and Lieutenant-General
9 August - Jean-Baptiste Tuby, Italian-born sculptor
15 September - André Le Nôtre landscape architect
23 October - Anne Marie de Bourbon, princess
13 November - Louis Guittar, pirate, hanged in London
30 November - Armande Béjart, actress

Full date unknown

Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, composer and violinist
Jean Castaing, engineer, inventor of the castaing machine