1719 in France
Events from the year 1719 in France.
Incumbents
- Monarch - Louis XV
- Regent: Philip II of Orleans
Events
- 1718 to 1720 - The Pontcallec Conspiracy
- April 4 - The French army under James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick invades the Basque provinces of Spain, with 20,000 troops crossing into Navarre
- May 23 - Mississippi Company becomes the Compagnie Perpétuelle des Indes
- June 30 - Berwick begins the Siege of San Sebastian in northern Spain
- August 19 - San Sebastian surrenders to Berwick. Local leaders petition for the surrounding province to be annexed to France, but is later returned to Spain at the Treaty of The Hague
Births
- October 17 - Jacques Cazotte, writer
Deaths
- March 3 - Jacques-Louis de Valon, soldier and poet
- March 10 - Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond, architect and garden designer
- November 8 - Michel Rolle, mathematician