1712 in France
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Events from the year 1712 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- March â Cassard expedition sets out
- 24 July â Battle of Denain
Arts and culture
- 12 January â The première of the opera Idoménée by André Campra takes place at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris
- 27 December â The première of the opera Callirhoé by André Cardinal Destouches takes place at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris
Births
- 2 January â Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc, feral child (died 1775)
- 28 February â Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, general (died 1759)
- 14 March â Charles-Antoine Jombert, bookseller and publisher (died 1784)
- 27 March â Claude Bourgelat, veterinary surgeon (died 1779)
- 8 April â Pierre Pouchot, military engineer officer (died 1769)
- 17 May â Jean-Baptiste Greppo, canon and archaeologist (died 1767)
- 28 May â Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, economist (died 1759)
- 21 June â Luc Urbain de Bouëxic, comte de Guichen, admiral (died 1790)
- 25 June â Exupere Joseph Bertin, anatomist (died 1781)
- 9 July â Charles-Ãtienne Pesselier, playwright and librettist (died 1763)
- 15 August â César Gabriel de Choiseul, officer and statesman (died 1785)
- 24 August â Michel-Barthélémy Ollivier, painter and engraver (died 1784)
- 15 September â Pierre Simon Fournier, punch-cutter (died 1768)
- 22 September â François-Joseph-Gaston de Partz de Pressy, cleric (died 1789)
- 26 September â Dominique de La Rochefoucauld, cardinal (died 1800)
- 4 November â Charles Louis de Marbeuf, general (died 1786)
- 7 November â Antoine Choquet de Lindu, architect (died 1790)
- 20 November â Guillaume Voiriot, portrait painter (died 1799)
- 24 November â Charles-Michel de l'Ãpée, priest and educator of the deaf (died 1789)
- 12 December
- Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Lorraine-born Austrian general and soldier (died 1780)
- François-Antoine Devaux, Lorraine-born poet and man of letters (died 1796)
- Approximate date â Angélique du Coudray, pioneer of modern midwifery (died 1794)
Deaths
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- 12 January â Jean-Baptiste-Joseph de Coriolis de Villeneuve d'Espinouse, aristocrat (born 1655)
- 12 February â Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, Dauphine of France (born 1685)
- 18 February â Louis, Duke of Burgundy, Dauphin of France (born 1682)
- 22 February â Nicolas Catinat, military officer (born 1637)
- 8 March â Louis, Duke of Brittany (born 1707)
- 11 April â Richard Simon, priest, Oratorian, biblical critic, orientalist and controversialist (born 1638)[2]
- 11 June â Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme, military commander (born 1654)
- 13 July â Isaac de Porthau, Gascon black musketeer of the Maison du Roi (born 1617)
- 9 September â Jean Mauger, medallist (born 1648)
- 14 September â Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-born astronomer and engineer (born 1625)
- 5 November â Charles Honoré d'Albert, duc de Luynes, noble (born 1646)
Full date unknown
- Jean-Baptiste Forest, landscape painter (born 1636)
