1709 in France

Events from the year 1709 in France.

Decades:

Incumbents

1 January â Battle of St. John's: French capture St. John's, capital of the British colony of Newfoundland.
6 January â Western Europe's Great Frost of 1709, the coldest period in 500 years, begins during the night, lasting three months, with its effects felt for the entire year.^[2] In France, the Atlantic coast and Seine River freeze, crops fail, and 24,000 Parisians die. Floating ice enters the North Sea.
13 April â The Raudot Ordinance of 1709 becomes law in the French colony of New France, legalizing slavery.
11 September â Battle of Malplaquet (War of the Spanish Succession) fought near the French border: French strategic victory but tactical victory for the opposing alliance.

7 February â Charles de Brosses, writer (died 1777)^[3]
24 February â Jacques de Vaucanson, engineer and inventor (died 1782)
14 April â Charles CollÃ©, dramatist (died 1783)
7 August â Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan, polymath (died 1784)
29 August â Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, poet and dramatist (died 1777)
3 September â Joan Claudi PeirÃ²t, Occitan writer (died 1795)
23 November â Julien Offray de La Mettrie, physician and philosopher (died 1751)

20 January â FranÃ§ois de la Chaise, confessor of Louis XIV (born 1624)
9 February â FranÃ§ois Louis, Prince of Conti, general (born 1664)
5 April â Roger de Piles, painter, engraver, art critic and diplomat (born 1635)
17 July â Pascal Collasse, composer (baptized 1649)
4 September â Jean-FranÃ§ois Regnard, comic poet (born 1655)
17 October â FranÃ§ois Mauriceau, obstetrician (born 1637)
8 December â Thomas Corneille, dramatist (born 1625)^[4]
13 December â Louis de Verjus, politician and diplomat (born 1629)
31 December â Pierre Cally, philosopher (born 1630)