1723 in France
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Events from the year 1723 in France.
Incumbents
- Monarch â Louis XV[1]
- Regent: Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (until 15 February)[2]
Events
- 15 February â King Louis XV attains his majority on his 13th birthday, bringing an end to the 7½-year Régence of his cousin Philippe II, Duke of Orléans.[3]
- 22 March â 4 Protestant preachers are hanged at Montpellier.[4]
- 10 August â Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, previously regent, is appointed by the King to serve as his chief minister, but dies in office less than four months later.
Births
- 5 January â Nicole-Reine Lepaute, astronomer and mathematician (died 1788)
- 21 February â Louis-Pierre Anquetil, historian (died 1808)
- 30 April â Mathurin Jacques Brisson, zoologist (died 1806)[5]
- 11 July â Jean-François Marmontel, historian, writer (died 1799)
Deaths
- 13 March â René Auguste Constantin de Renneville, Protestant poet and historian (born 1650)
- 11 May â Jean Galbert de Campistron, dramatist (born 1656)
- 29 May â Jean de La Chapelle, novelist and playwright (born 1621)
- 10 August â Guillaume Dubois, cardinal and statesman (born 1656)
- 20 September â Félix Le Pelletier de La Houssaye, statesman (born 1663)
- 2 December â Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, chief minister, ex-regent (born 1674)
Full date unknown
- Charles d'Agar, painter (born 1669)
