1708 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XIV

Events

• 23 March - James Stuart, the "Old Pretender", having sailed from Dunkirk with 5000 French troops, with the intention of invading Britain, attempts to land in the Firth of Forth; the attempt is thwarted by the Royal Navy, under Admiral Byng.

Births

• 10 January - Donat Nonnotte, painter
• 26 March - Louis Guillouet, comte d'Orvilliers, admiral
• 2 September - André le Breton, publisher

Deaths

• 5 March - Charles Le Gobien, Jesuit writer
• 23 April - Jacques Gravier, Jesuit missionary
• 11 May - Jules Hardouin Mansart, architect
• 28 December - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, botanist