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List of events
Events from the year 1711 in
France
Incumbents
Events
3 April –
Clipperton Island in the Pacific is rediscovered by Martin de Chassiron and Michel Du Bocage, who claim it for France and map it.
9 August–12 September –
Siege of Bouchain (War of the Spanish Succession): the
Duke of Marlborough breaks through the French lines.
11 October – 245 people are killed in a crush on the
Pont de la Guillotière [
fr ] in
Lyon , caused when a large crowd returning from a festival on the other side of the
Rhône becomes trapped against an obstruction in the middle of the bridge caused by a collision between a carriage and a cart.
Births
23 February –
Louis de Brienne de Conflans d'Armentières , general (died 1774)
26 April –
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont , writer (died 1780)
22 May –
Guillaume du Tillot , politician (died 1774)
7 June –
François Jacquier , Franciscan mathematician and physicist (died 1788)
12 June –
Louis Legrand , Sulpician priest and theologian (died 1780)
26 July –
Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne , architect (died 1778)
29 July –
Claude-Adrien Nonnotte , writer (died 1793)
19 August –
Gabriel de Solages , soldier and industrialist (died 1799)
2 September –
Noël Hallé , painter, draughtsman and printmaker (died 1781)
23 September –
Louis Nicolas Victor de Félix d'Ollières , Marshal of France (died 1775)
21 October –
Armand-Jérôme Bignon , lawyer (died 1772)
25 December –
Jean-Joseph de Mondonville , composer and violinist (died 1772)
Deaths
Claudine Françoise Mignot
24 January –
Jean Bérain the Elder , draughtsman, designer, painter and engraver (born 1640)
27 January –
Antoine de Pas de Feuquières , soldier (born 1648)
26 February –
Claude Frassen , theologian and philosopher (born 1620)
13 March –
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux , poet and critic (born 1636)
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29 March –
Gabriel Gerberon , Jansenist monk (born 1628)
11 April –
François Lamy , Benedictine theologian (born 1636)
14 April –
Louis, Grand Dauphin , son of Louis XIV (born 1661)
17 April –
Louis Carré , mathematician (born 1663)
4 May –
Princess Élisabeth Charlotte of Lorraine (born 1700)
31 August –
Jean Le Pelletier , polygraph and alchemist (born 1633)
3 September –
Élisabeth Sophie Chéron , painter, musician and poet (born 1648)
14 September –
Claude Aveneau , missionary (born 1650)
30 November –
Claudine Françoise Mignot , adventuress (born 1624)
Full date missing –
Étienne Baudet , engraver (born 1636)
See also
References
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