1681 in France

Events from the year 1681 in France.

Decades:

Incumbents

15 May â The Canal du Midi is opened officially, as the Canal Royal de Languedoc.^[2]
30 September â France annexes the city of Strasbourg, previously a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire.
The Dragonnades are instituted to intimidate Huguenot families into either leaving France or converting to Catholicism. Collections are made in England for needy French refugees.
The Port of Honfleur is remodelled by Abraham Duquesne.

9 April â Nicolas Edelinck, engraver (d. 1767)
11 April â Anne Danican Philidor, musician (d. 1728)
26 May â Antoine-FranÃ§ois Botot Dangeville, dancing master, dancer and ballet teacher (d. c.1737)
31 May â Joseph-FranÃ§ois Lafitau, Jesuit missionary, ethnologist, and naturalist (d. 1746)
6 October â Charles FranÃ§ois de Mondion, architect and military engineer (d. 1733)
19 October â Claude Bouhier de Lantenay, clergyman and the second bishop of Dijon (d. 1755)
7 November â Isaac-Joseph Berruyer, Jesuit historian (d. 1748)

16 January â Olivier Patru, lawyer and writer (b. 1604)
24 January â Jean Baptiste Gonet, Dominican theologian (b. c.1616)^[3]
6 May â Catherine Trianon, fortune teller and accused poisoner in the famous Poison Affair (b. 1627)
23 May â Claude Deschamps, actor and playwright (b. c.1600)
15 September â Louise Marie Anne de Bourbon, illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France and his MaÃ®tresse-en-titre, Madame de Montespan (b. 1674)
23 September â Pierre Simon Jaillot, sculptor (b. 1631)^[4]^[5]
26 November â Jean Garnier, Jesuit church historian, patristic scholar and moral theologian (b. 1612)^[6]
10 December â Gaspard Marsy, sculptor (b. 1624 or 1625)
16 December â FranÃ§ois Vavasseur, Jesuit humanist and controversialist (b. 1605)
19 December â Marguerite Joly, accused poisoner in the Poison Affair, confessed under torture to several murders, sentenced to be burned at the stake (b. 1637)
21 December â Lacuzon, Franc-Comtois leader (b. 1607)