1687 in France
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Events from the year 1687 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- March â Embassy of Loubère-Céberet to Siam, consisting of a French expeditionary force of 1,361 soldiers, missionaries, envoys and crews aboard five warships.
- Fort Denonville established
Births
- 15 February â Philippe Charles de La Fare, a Marshal of France (d. 1752)
- 8 May â Jean Henri Desmercières, French-Danish merchant, banker and landowner (d. 1778)[2]
Deaths
- 18 March â François Collignon, engraver, print-seller and publisher (born c.1609)
- 19 March â René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, explorer (b. 1643)
- 6 November â Charles de Grimaldi-Régusse, aristocrat, landowner and politician (b. 1612)
