1717 in France
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Events from the year 1717 in France.
Incumbents
- Monarch â Louis XV[1]
- Regent: Philip II of Orleans[2]
Events
- 4 January (24 December 1716 OS) â Triple Alliance treaty between France, the Dutch Republic and Great Britain against Spain
Arts and culture
- 27 March â Actress Adrienne Lecouvreur is invited to join the Comédie-Française in Paris, performing first in the title rôle of Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon's Electre
- 16 May â Voltaire is sentenced to eleven months in the Bastille and banished from Paris for criticizing the Duc D'Orléans;[3] while in prison he writes his first play, Oedipe ("Oedipus")
- The last two volumes of Antoine Galland's Les mille et une nuits are published posthumously in Lyon of the first translation of One Thousand and One Nights into a European language, including the first translation of the story of Ali Baba
Births
- 18 January â Jean-François-Marie de Surville, trader and navigator (died 1770)
- 8 May â Charles Guillaume Le Normant d'Ãtiolles, official, husband of Madame de Pompadour (died 1799)
- 20 June â Jacques Saly, sculptor (died 1776)
- 27 June â Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, botanist (died 1799)
- 13 August â Louis François, Prince of Conti, nobleman, military leader (died 1776)
- 15 August â Louis Carrogis Carmontelle, dramatist (died 1806)
- 5 October â Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, mistress of King Louis XV (died 1744)
- 16 November â Jean le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician and encyclopædist (died 1783)
- 29 December â Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, statesman and diplomat (died 1785)
Full date unknown
- Claude Humbert Piarron de Chamousset, philanthropist (died 1773)
Deaths
- 3 March â Pierre Allix, Protestant clergyman (born 1641)
- 5 March â François de Callières, diplomat, member of the Académie française (born 1645)
- 3 April â Jacques Ozanam, mathematician (born 1640)
- 5 April â Jean Jouvenet, painter (born 1644)
- 8 April â Antoine Benoist, painter and sculptor (born 1632)
- 17 May â Bon Boullogne, painter (born 1649)[4]
- 9 June â Jeanne Guyon, mystic (born 1648)
- 11 June â Louis de Carrières, priest and Bible commentator (born 1662)
- 29 June â Augustin le Gardeur de Courtemanche, soldier and ambassador (born 1663)
- 13 August â Nicolas Perrot, explorer, fur trader and diplomat (born c.1644)
- September â Casimir Oudin, monk and librarian (born 1638)
- October â Philippe Pastour de Costebelle, naval officer and Governor of Newfoundland (born 1661)
- 21 November â Jean-Baptiste Santerre, painter (born 1658)
