1723 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XV
• Regent: Philippe II, Duke of Orléans

Events

• 15 February – King Louis XV attains his majority on his 13th birthday, bringing an end to the 7½-year Régence of his cousin Philippe II, Duke of Orléans.
• 22 March – 4 Protestant preachers are hanged at Montpellier.
• 10 August – Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, previously regent, is appointed by the King to serve as his chief minister, but dies in office less than four months later.

Births

• 5 January – Nicole-Reine Lepaute, astronomer and mathematician
• 21 February – Louis-Pierre Anquetil, historian
• 30 April – Mathurin Jacques Brisson, zoologist
• 11 July – Jean-François Marmontel, historian, writer

Deaths

• 13 March – René Auguste Constantin de Renneville, Protestant poet and historian
• 11 May – Jean Galbert de Campistron, dramatist
• 29 May – Jean de La Chapelle, novelist and playwright
• 10 August – Guillaume Dubois, cardinal and statesman
• 20 September – Félix Le Pelletier de La Houssaye, statesman
• 2 December – Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, chief minister, ex-regent

Full date unknown

• Charles d'Agar, painter