1699 in France
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Events from the year 1699 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 20 January: Louis XIV gave the French Academy of Sciences its first rules.[2]
- 11 June: France, England and the Dutch Republic agree on the terms of the Treaty of London (1700) (Second Partition Treaty) for Spain.[3]
- The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture holds the first of a series of salons at the Louvre Palace.
Births
- 26 March: Hubert-François Gravelot, illustrator (d. 1773)
- 26 June: Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, salonnière (d. 1777)
- 17 August: Bernard de Jussieu, naturalist (d. 1777)[4]
- 25 August: Charles Ãtienne Louis Camus, mathematician and mechanician (d. 1768)[5]
- 13 October: Jeanne Quinault, actress and playwright (d. 1783)
- 2 November: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, painter (d. 1779)
- 25 November: Pierre Subleyras, painter (d. 1749)
Full date unknown
- Joseph Galien, professor of philosophy and theology at the University of Avignon, meteorologist, physicist and writer on aeronautics (d. 1762 or 1782)[6]
Deaths
- 20 February: Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, painter (b. 1636)
- 21 April: Jean Racine, classic dramatist (b. 1639)
- 26 September: Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne, diplomat and minister (b. 1618)
- 18 November: Pierre Pomet, pharmacist (b. 1658)
- 30 December: Pierre Robert, composer (b. c. 1618)[7]
Full date unknown
- Antoine Le Grand, Cartesian philosopher, in England (b. 1629)[8]
