1696 in France
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Events from the year 1696 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- The Edict of 1696
This Edict stated that for a coat of arms to be valid, it had to be registered with the King of Arms for a fee. Due to this, 110 000 coats of arms were registered by d'Hozier, the King of Arms.[2]
- Treaty of Turin
Signed on 29 August 1696 by the French King and the Duchy of Savoy, ended the latter's involvement in the Nine Years' War.
Births
- 29 February â Esprit Antoine Blanchard, musician (died 1770)[3]
- 31 July â Dumont de Montigny, colonial officer (died 1760)
Deaths
- 14 March â Jean Domat, jurisconsult (born 1625)
- 14 April â Isaac de l'Ostal de Saint-Martin, chevalier (born c.1629)
- 17 April â Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, aristocrat (born 1626)
- 27 April â Simon Foucher, polemic philosopher (born 1644)
- 11 May â Jean de La Bruyère, philosopher and moralist (born 1645)
- 9 June â Antoine Varillas, historian (born 1624)
- 29 June â Michel Lambert, composer (born 1610)
- 28 July â Charles Colbert, marquis de Croissy, statesman and diplomat (born 1625)
- 21 December â Louise Moillon, painter (born 1610)
Full date unknown
- Jean Richer, astronomer (born 1630)
- Jean Baptiste Mathey, architect and painter (born 1630)
