1697 in France

Events from the year 1697 in France.

Incumbents

January - Charles Perrault publishes Histoires ou contes du temps passé in Paris, a collection of popular fairy tales, including Cinderella, Puss in Boots, Red Riding Hood, The Sleeping Beauty and Bluebeard
5 September - Nine Years' War: Battle of Hudson's Bay - French warship Pélican captures York Factory, a trading post of the English Hudson's Bay Company in modern-day Manitoba
20 September - The Treaty of Ryswick is signed by France and the Grand Alliance to end both the Nine Years' War and King William's War. The conflict having been inconclusive, the treaty is proposed because the combatants have exhausted their national treasuries. Louis XIV recognises William III as King of England and Scotland, and both sides return territories they have taken in battle. In North America, the treaty returns Port Royal to France. In practice, the treaty is little more than a truce; it does not resolve any of the fundamental colonial problems, and the peace lasts only five years
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Blois established

16 January - Jules, Prince of Soubise, nobleman
23 January - Joseph François Dupleix, governor general of the French establishment in India
10 May - Jean-Marie Leclair, violinist and composer
11 July - Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, geographer and cartographer