1703 in France

Events from the year 1703 in France.

Incumbents

20 February – 10 March - War of the Spanish Succession: Siege of Kehl - French forces under the command of the Duc de Villars capture the fortress of the Holy Roman Empire at Kehl, opposite Strasbourg on the Rhine.
19 March – 15 May - War of the Spanish Succession: Siege of Guadeloupe - An English expeditionary force fails to capture the island capital Basse-Terre in the French West Indies.
21 March - Jeanne Guyon is freed in Paris after more than seven years imprisonment for heresy in the Bastille.
7 September - War of the Spanish Succession: The town of Breisach is retaken for France by Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard.
11 October - Nine Roman Catholic residents of the village of Sainte-Cécile-d'Andorge are massacred by a mob of more than 800 Huguenot Protestants, the Camisards. A reprisal against Protestants in the nearby village of Branoux is made less than three weeks later.
30 October - More than 47 Huguenots in the village of Branoux-les-Taillades are massacred by Roman Catholic vigilantes in reprisal for the 11 October attack in Sainte-Cécile, 3.3 km away.
15 November - War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Speyerbach - The French defeat a German relief army, allowing the French to take the besieged town of Landau two days later, for which Tallard is made a Marshal of France.
19 November - The Man in the Iron Mask dies in the Bastille.

3 January - Daniel-Charles Trudaine, administrator and civil engineer
8 January - André Levret, obstetrician
5 January - Paul d'Albert de Luynes, archbishop
15 January - Henriette Louise de Bourbon, princess
22 January - Antoine Walsh, slave trader and Jacobite
31 January - André-Joseph Panckoucke, author and bookseller
3 February - Jean Philippe de Bela, military figure and Basque writer and historian
4 February - Jean Saas, historian and bibliographer
3 March - Charles-Joseph Natoire, rococo painter
4 March - Nicolas René Berryer, magistrate and politician
8 April - Benoît-Joseph Boussu, violin maker
10 April - Pierre Daubenton, lawyer
18 May - Jean Daullé, engraver
20 May - René Lièvre de Besançon, archer
21 June - Joseph Lieutaud, physician
4 August - Louis, Duke of Orléans, member of the royal family
15 September - Guillaume-François Rouelle, chemist
29 September
* François Boucher, painter
* François Fresneau de La Gataudière, botanist and scientist
16 October - Joachim Faiguet de Villeneuve, economist
28 October - Antoine Deparcieux, mathematician
23 November - Louise Levesque, femme de lettres
25 November - Jean-François Séguier, astronomer and botanist
Charles Clémencet, Benedictine historian