1691 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XIV

Events

• 18 September - Battle of Leuze

Births

• 13 April - Joseph-Charles Roettiers, engraver and medalist
• 5 August - Charles d'Orléans de Rothelin, clergyman
• 18 December - Gaston-Laurent Coeurdoux, Jesuit missionary

Full date unknown

• François Alexandre Pierre de Garsault, botanist, zoologist and painter

Deaths

• 5 March - Jean-Jacques Renouard de Villayer, member of the Conseil d'État
• 3 April - Jean Petitot, painter