1698 in France
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Incumbents
Events
- Today's Place Vendôme is created as the Place des Conquêtes in Paris.[2]
- 24 October â Iberville and Bienville sail from Brest to the Gulf of Mexico to defend the southern borders of New France; they will eventually found three capitals of Louisiana (New France), as the future American cities: Mobile, Biloxi & New Orleans.[3]
Births
- 17 July â Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French mathematician (d. 1759)
- 6 September â Jean Thurel, French soldier (d. 1807)
Full date unknown
- Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (d. 1761)
Deaths
- 10 January â Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (b. 1637)
- 15 May â Marie Champmeslé, French actress (b. 1642)
- 28 November â Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (b. 1622)
