1719 in France
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Events from the year 1719 in France.
Incumbents
- Monarch â Louis XV[1]
- Regent: Philip II of Orleans[2]
Events
- 1718 to 1720 â The Pontcallec Conspiracy
- April 4 â The French army under James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick invades the Basque provinces of Spain, with 20,000 troops crossing into Navarre[3]
- May 23 â Mississippi Company becomes the Compagnie Perpétuelle des Indes
- June 30 â Berwick begins the Siege of San Sebastian in northern Spain
- August 19 â San Sebastian surrenders to Berwick. Local leaders petition for the surrounding province to be annexed to France, but is later returned to Spain at the Treaty of The Hague
Births
- October 17 â Jacques Cazotte, writer (died 1792)[4]
Deaths
- March 3 â Jacques-Louis de Valon, soldier and poet (born 1659)
- March 10 â Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond, architect and garden designer (born 1679)
- November 8 â Michel Rolle, mathematician (born 1652)
