1687 in France

Events from the year 1687 in France.

Incumbents

Monarch - Louis XIV

Events

March - Embassy of Loubère-Céberet to Siam, consisting of a French expeditionary force of 1,361 soldiers, missionaries, envoys and crews aboard five warships.
Fort Denonville established

Births

15 February - Philippe Charles de La Fare, a Marshal of France
8 May – Jean Henri Desmercières, French-Danish merchant, banker and landowner

Deaths

18 March - François Collignon, engraver, print-seller and publisher
19 March - René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, explorer
6 November - Charles de Grimaldi-Régusse, aristocrat, landowner and politician