1704 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XIV

Events

• 13 August - War of the Spanish Succession - Battle of Blenheim: Allied troops under John Churchill, the Earl of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeat the Franco-Bavarian army.

Births

• 12 February - Charles Pinot Duclos, writer
• 28 February - Louis Godin, astronomer
• 3 August - Catherine-Nicole Lemaure, operatic soprano
• 24 June - Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, writer

Deaths

• 2 February - Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital, mathematician
• 24 February - Marc-Antoine Charpentier, composer
• 12 April - Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, bishop and writer
• 13 May - Louis Bourdaloue, Jesuit preacher
• 7 July - Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, fur trader and explorer
• 14 August - Roland Laporte, Protestant leader