1720 in France
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Events from the year 1720 in France.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Louis XV[1]
- Regent: Philip II of Orleans[2]
Events
- February 17 â Treaty of The Hague signed between Spain, Britain, France, Austria and the Dutch Republic, ending the War of the Quadruple Alliance.[3]
- Outbreak of plague in Marseille; the bishop, Henri François Xavier de Belsunce de Castelmoron, wins approbation by remaining in his diocese.
- John Law abandons all his accumulated wealth and flees to Brussels amidst the collapse of the Mississippi Bubble.
Births
- March 22 â Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (d. 1799)
- November 1 â Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (d. 1791)
- November 16 â Carlo Antonio Campioni, French-born composer (d. 1788)
Deaths
- April 21 â Antoine Hamilton, French writer (b. 1646)
- June 27 â Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (b. 1639)
- August 17 â Anne Lefèvre, French scholar (b. 1654)
- September 3 â Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1648)
- October 10 â Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (b. 1640)
