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Events from the year 1716 in France.
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Incumbents
edit- Monarch: Louis XV[1]
- Regent: Philip II of Orleans[2]
Events
edit- May [3]- John Law Scottish economist establishes Le Banque Générale in Paris.
- April – The Jacobite pretender to the British throne James Stuart is forced to leave France due to the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht. He takes up residence in the Papal exclave in Avignon and later moves to Italy.
Births
edit- 20 January - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, writer and numismatist (died 1795)
- 29 May - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, naturalist (died 1800)
- 18 June - Joseph-Marie Vien, painter (died 1809)
- 16 December - Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, diplomat and writer (died 1798)
- 26 December - Jean François de Saint-Lambert, poet (died 1803)
Deaths
edit- 13 December - Charles de La Fosse, painter (born 1640)
Full date unknown
edit- Pierre-Marie-Jérôme Trésaguet, engineer (died 1796).
See also
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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.
- ^ Cassell's Chronology of WORLD HISTORY, Hywel Williams, p.295