1711 in France

Events from the year 1711 in France.

Decades:

Incumbents

3 April â Clipperton Island in the Pacific is rediscovered by Martin de Chassiron and Michel Du Bocage, who claim it for France and map it.
9 Augustâ12 September â Siege of Bouchain (War of the Spanish Succession): the Duke of Marlborough breaks through the French lines.
11 October â 245 people are killed in a crush on the Pont de la GuillotiÃ¨re [fr] in Lyon, caused when a large crowd returning from a festival on the other side of the RhÃ´ne becomes trapped against an obstruction in the middle of the bridge caused by a collision between a carriage and a cart.

23 February â Louis de Brienne de Conflans d'ArmentiÃ¨res, general (died 1774)
26 April â Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, writer (died 1780)
22 May â Guillaume du Tillot, politician (died 1774)
7 June â FranÃ§ois Jacquier, Franciscan mathematician and physicist (died 1788)
12 June â Louis Legrand, Sulpician priest and theologian (died 1780)
26 July â Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne, architect (died 1778)
29 July â Claude-Adrien Nonnotte, writer (died 1793)
19 August â Gabriel de Solages, soldier and industrialist (died 1799)
2 September â NoÃ«l HallÃ©, painter, draughtsman and printmaker (died 1781)
23 September â Louis Nicolas Victor de FÃ©lix d'OlliÃ¨res, Marshal of France (died 1775)
21 October â Armand-JÃ©rÃ´me Bignon, lawyer (died 1772)
25 December â Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, composer and violinist (died 1772)