1711 in France
Events from the year 1711 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 3 April - Clipperton Island in the Pacific is rediscovered by Martin de Chassiron and Michel Du Bocage, who claim it for France and map it.
- 9 August-12 September - Siege of Bouchain : the Duke of Marlborough breaks through the French lines.
- 11 October - 245 people are killed in a crush on the in Lyon, caused when a large crowd returning from a festival on the other side of the Rhône becomes trapped against an obstruction in the middle of the bridge caused by a collision between a carriage and a cart.
Births
- 23 February - Louis de Brienne de Conflans d'Armentières, general
- 26 April - Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, writer
- 22 May - Guillaume du Tillot, politician
- 7 June - François Jacquier, Franciscan mathematician and physicist
- 12 June - Louis Legrand, Sulpician priest and theologian
- 26 July - Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne, architect
- 29 July - Claude-Adrien Nonnotte, writer
- 19 August - Gabriel de Solages, soldier and industrialist
- 2 September - Noël Hallé, painter, draughtsman and printmaker
- 23 September - Louis Nicolas Victor de Félix d'Ollières, Marshal of France
- 21 October - Armand-Jérôme Bignon, lawyer
- 25 December - Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, composer and violinist
Deaths
- 24 January - Jean Bérain the Elder, draughtsman, designer, painter and engraver
- 27 January - Antoine de Pas de Feuquières, soldier
- 26 February - Claude Frassen, theologian and philosopher
- 13 March - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, poet and critic
- 29 March - Gabriel Gerberon, Jansenist monk
- 11 April - François Lamy, Benedictine theologian
- 14 April - Louis, Grand Dauphin, son of Louis XIV
- 17 April - Louis Carré, mathematician
- 4 May - Princess Élisabeth Charlotte of Lorraine
- 31 August - Jean Le Pelletier, polygraph and alchemist
- 3 September - Élisabeth Sophie Chéron, painter, musician and poet
- 14 September - Claude Aveneau, missionary
- 30 November - Claudine Françoise Mignot, adventuress
Full date unknown
- Étienne Baudet, engraver