1710 in France
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Events from the year 1710 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- August 20 â War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Saragossa: The Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by the Marquis de Bay is soundly defeated by the forces of the Habsburg monarchy under Guido Starhemberg and their allies.[2]
Births
- February 15 â Louis Duke of Anjou, great-grandson of reigning King Louis XIV and his eventual successor (as Louis XV) (d. 1774)
- November 13 â Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (d. 1792)
Full date unknown
- Antoine Yart, poet and translator (d. 1791)
Deaths
- February 16 â Esprit Fléchier, French writer and Bishop of Nîmes (b. 1632)
- February 25 â Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, French explorer (b. c. 1639)
- March 4 â Louis III, Prince of Condé (b. 1668)
- June 7 â Louise de La Vallière, mistress of King Louis XIV of France (b. 1644)
