1706 in France
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Events from the year 1706 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 23 May â Battle of Ramillies
- 8 September â Battle of Castiglione
Births
- 1 March â Sébastien Bigot de Morogues, soldier (died 1781)
Deaths
- 21 January â Adrien Baillet, scholar and critic (born 1649)
- 30 June â Jacques Boyvin, composer (born c.1649)
- 3 July â Thomas Regnaudin, sculptor (baptized 1622)
- 9 September â Ferdinand de Marsin, general (born 1656)
- 28 December â Pierre Bayle, philosopher (born 1647)[2]
Full date unknown
- Jacques Testu de Belval, poet and preacher (born c.1626)
- Jean Testu de Mauroy, clergyman and academic (born 1626)
