1703 in France
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See also: | Other events of 1703 History of France • Timeline • Years |
Events from the year 1703 in France
Events
- The Siege of Kehl resulted in a French victory
- The Siege of Guadeloupe
Births
- 3 January – Daniel-Charles Trudaine, administrator and civil engineer (died 1769)
- 8 January – André Levret, obstetrician (died 1780)
- 5 January – Paul d'Albert de Luynes, archbishop (died 1788)
- 15 January – Henriette Louise de Bourbon, princess (died 1772)
- 22 January – Antoine Walsh, slave trader and Jacobite (died 1763)
- 31 January – André-Joseph Panckoucke, author and bookseller (died 1753)
- 3 February – Jean Philippe de Bela, military figure and Basque writer and historian (died 1796)
- 4 February – Jean Saas, historian and bibliographer (died 1774)
- 3 March – Charles-Joseph Natoire, rococo painter (died 1777)
- 4 March – Nicolas René Berryer, magistrate and politician (died 1762)
- 8 April – Benoît-Joseph Boussu, violin maker (died 1773)
- 10 April – Pierre Daubenton, lawyer (died 1776)
- 18 May – Jean Daullé, engraver (died 1763)
- 20 May – René Lièvre de Besançon, archer (died 1739)
- 21 June – Joseph Lieutaud, physician (died 1780)
- 4 August – Louis, Duke of Orléans, member of the royal family (died 1752)
- 15 September – Guillaume-François Rouelle, chemist (d. 1770)
- 29 September
- François Boucher, painter (died 1770)
- François Fresneau de La Gataudière, botanist and scientist (died 1770)
- 16 October – Joachim Faiguet de Villeneuve, economist (died 1781)
- 28 October – Antoine Deparcieux, mathematician (died 1768)
- 23 November – Louise Levesque, femme de lettres (died 1743)
- 25 November – Jean-François Séguier, astronomer and botanist (died 1784)
- Charles Clémencet, Benedictine historian (died 1778)
Deaths
- 16 May – Charles Perrault, author (born 1628).[1]
- 26 May – Louis-Hector de Callière, politician, governor of Montreal (born in 1648)
- 26 July – Gérard Audran, engraver (born 1640)
- 30 November – Nicolas de Grigny, organist and composer
References
- Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1924). "Perrault, Charles". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). 19 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. pp. 7–8. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
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