1697 in France
Events from the year 1697 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 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
Births
- 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
Deaths
- 4 February - Adrien de Wignacourt, 63rd Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller
- 21 June - Joseph Anthelmi, ecclesiastical historian
- 5 August - Jean-Baptiste de Santeul, writer
- 1 October - Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella, engraver
- 22 November - Libéral Bruant, architect
- 9 December - Scipion Abeille, surgeon and poet
Full date unknown
- François d'Orbay, draughtsman and architect
- Ange de Saint Joseph, missionary and linguist