1682 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XIV

Events

• Construction of the Canal de la Bruche started

Births

• 1 April – Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d'Olivet, abbot, writer, grammarian and translator
• 27 April – Claudine Guérin de Tencin, salonist and author
• 16 August – Louis, Duke of Burgundy, later Dauphin of France

Full date unknown

• Marie-Anne Horthemels, engraver
• Jean-Baptiste Francois des Marets, marquis de Maillebois, a Marshall of France
• Claude [Du Bosc], engraver

Deaths

• 18 February – Pierre Dupuis, painter
• 25 April – Ambroise Janvier, Benedictine and theologian
• 28 May – Henri, Duke of Verneuil, bishop and diplomat
• 24 August – Marie Charlotte de la Trémoille, noblewoman
• 25 November – Antoine Bouzonnet-Stella, painter and printmaker

Full date unknown

• Raymond Restaurand, physician