1719 in France
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Events from the year 1719 in France
Incumbents
[edit]- Monarch – Louis XV[1]
- Regent: Philip II of Orleans[2]
Events
[edit]- 1718 to 1720 – The Pontcallec Conspiracy
- April 4 – 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 – Mississippi Company becomes the Compagnie Perpétuelle des Indes
- June 30 – Berwick begins the Siege of San Sebastian in northern Spain
- August 19 – 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
[edit]- October 17 – Jacques Cazotte, writer (died 1792)[4]
Deaths
[edit]- March 3 – Jacques-Louis de Valon, soldier and poet (born 1659)
- March 10 – Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond, architect and garden designer (born 1679)
- November 8 – Michel Rolle, mathematician (born 1652)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "BBC - History - King Louis XV". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- ^ Semmens, Richard Templar (2004). The Bals Publics at the Paris Opéra in the Eighteenth Century. Pendragon Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-1-57647-034-3.
- ^ Mellersh, H. E. L., ed. (1999). Chronology of World History. Vol. 9. ABC-CLIO. p. 532.
- ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1916). "Cazotte, Jacques". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 4 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. Retrieved 5 September 2015.