1704 in France
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Events from the year 1704 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 13 August â War of the Spanish Succession â Battle of Blenheim: Allied troops under John Churchill, the Earl of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeat the Franco-Bavarian army.[2]
Births
- 12 February â Charles Pinot Duclos, writer (died 1772)
- 28 February â Louis Godin, astronomer (died 1760)
- 3 August â Catherine-Nicole Lemaure, operatic soprano (died 1786)
- 24 June â Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, writer (died 1771)
Deaths
- 2 February â Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital, mathematician (born 1661)
- 24 February â Marc-Antoine Charpentier, composer (born 1643)
- 12 April â Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, bishop and writer (born 1627)
- 13 May â Louis Bourdaloue, Jesuit preacher (born 1632)[3]
- 7 July â Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, fur trader and explorer (born c. 1657)
- 14 August â Roland Laporte, Protestant leader (born 1675)
