1703 in France
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Events from the year 1703 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 20 February â 10 March â War of the Spanish Succession: Siege of Kehl â French forces under the command of the Duc de Villars capture the fortress of the Holy Roman Empire at Kehl, opposite Strasbourg on the Rhine.
- 19 March â 15 May â War of the Spanish Succession: Siege of Guadeloupe â An English expeditionary force fails to capture the island capital Basse-Terre in the French West Indies.[2]
- 21 March â Jeanne Guyon is freed in Paris after more than seven years imprisonment for heresy in the Bastille.
- 7 September â War of the Spanish Succession: The town of Breisach is retaken for France by Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard.
- 11 October â Nine Roman Catholic residents of the village of Sainte-Cécile-d'Andorge are massacred by a mob of more than 800 Huguenot Protestants, the Camisards. A reprisal against Protestants in the nearby village of Branoux is made less than three weeks later.
- 30 October â More than 47 Huguenots in the village of Branoux-les-Taillades are massacred by Roman Catholic vigilantes in reprisal for the 11 October attack in Sainte-Cécile, 3.3 km away.
- 15 November â War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Speyerbach (in modern-day Germany) â The French defeat a German relief army, allowing the French to take the besieged town of Landau two days later, for which Tallard is made a Marshal of France.
- 19 November â The Man in the Iron Mask dies in the Bastille.
Births
- 3 January â Daniel-Charles Trudaine, administrator and civil engineer (died 1769)
- 8 January â André Levret, obstetrician (died 1780)
- 5 January â Paul d'Albert de Luynes, archbishop (died 1788)
- 15 January â Henriette Louise de Bourbon, princess (died 1772)
- 22 January â Antoine Walsh, slave trader and Jacobite (died 1763)
- 31 January â André-Joseph Panckoucke, author and bookseller (died 1753)
- 3 February â Jean Philippe de Bela, military figure and Basque writer and historian (died 1796)
- 4 February â Jean Saas, historian and bibliographer (died 1774)
- 3 March â Charles-Joseph Natoire, rococo painter (died 1777)
- 4 March â Nicolas René Berryer, magistrate and politician (died 1762)
- 8 April â Benoît-Joseph Boussu, violin maker (died 1773)
- 10 April â Pierre Daubenton, lawyer (died 1776)
- 18 May â Jean Daullé, engraver (died 1763)
- 20 May â René Lièvre de Besançon, archer (died 1739)
- 21 June â Joseph Lieutaud, physician (died 1780)
- 4 August â Louis, Duke of Orléans, member of the royal family (died 1752)
- 15 September â Guillaume-François Rouelle, chemist (d. 1770)
- 29 September
- François Boucher, painter (died 1770)
- François Fresneau de La Gataudière, botanist and scientist (died 1770)
- 16 October â Joachim Faiguet de Villeneuve, economist (died 1781)
- 28 October â Antoine Deparcieux, mathematician (died 1768)
- 23 November â Louise Levesque, femme de lettres (died 1743)
- 25 November â Jean-François Séguier, astronomer and botanist (died 1784)
- Charles Clémencet, Benedictine historian (died 1778)
Deaths
- 16 May â Charles Perrault, author (born 1628)[3]
- 26 May â Louis-Hector de Callière, politician, governor of Montreal (born in 1648)
- 26 July â Gérard Audran, engraver (born 1640)
- 30 November â Nicolas de Grigny, organist and composer
