1700 in France
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Events from the year 1700 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 24 March â The Treaty of London is signed between France, England and the Dutch Republic.[2]
- 15 November â Louis XIV of France accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou of the House of Bourbon, who becomes Philip V of Spain (in accordance with the will of Charles II of Spain), thus triggering the War of the Spanish Succession (1701â1714).[3]
Births
- 6 September â Claude-Nicolas Le Cat, surgeon (died 1768)[4]
- 21 October â Princess Ãlisabeth Charlotte of Lorraine (died 1711)
- 19 November â Jean-Antoine Nollet, clergyman and physicist (died 1770)
Full date unknown
- Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, architect (died 1771)[5]
Deaths
- 6 January â Charles-Félix de Galéan, aristocrat and Lieutenant-General (born 1620)
- 9 August â Jean-Baptiste Tuby, Italian-born sculptor (born 1635)
- 15 September â André Le Nôtre landscape architect (born 1613)
- 23 October â Anne Marie de Bourbon, princess (born 1675)
- 13 November â Louis Guittar, pirate, hanged in London
- 30 November â Armande Béjart, actress (born 1640)
Full date unknown
- Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, composer and violinist (born c.1640)
- Jean Castaing, engineer, inventor of the castaing machine
