1712 in France

Events from the year 1712 in France.

Incumbents

12 January - The première of the opera Idoménée by André Campra takes place at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris
27 December - The première of the opera Callirhoé by André Cardinal Destouches takes place at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris

2 January - Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc, feral child
28 February - Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, general
14 March - Charles-Antoine Jombert, bookseller and publisher
27 March - Claude Bourgelat, veterinary surgeon
8 April - Pierre Pouchot, military engineer officer
17 May - Jean-Baptiste Greppo, canon and archaeologist
28 May - Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, economist
21 June - Luc Urbain de Bouëxic, comte de Guichen, admiral
25 June - Exupere Joseph Bertin, anatomist
9 July - Charles-Étienne Pesselier, playwright and librettist
15 August - César Gabriel de Choiseul, officer and statesman
24 August - Michel-Barthélémy Ollivier, painter and engraver
15 September - Pierre Simon Fournier, punch-cutter
22 September - François-Joseph-Gaston de Partz de Pressy, cleric
26 September - Dominique de La Rochefoucauld, cardinal
4 November - Charles Louis de Marbeuf, general
7 November - Antoine Choquet de Lindu, architect
20 November - Guillaume Voiriot, portrait painter
24 November - Charles-Michel de l'Épée, priest and educator of the deaf
12 December
*Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Lorraine-born Austrian general and soldier
*François-Antoine Devaux, Lorraine-born poet and man of letters
Approximate date - Angélique du Coudray, pioneer of modern midwifery