1713 in France
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Events from the year 1713 in France
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- 11 April – The Second Treaty of Utrecht between Great Britain and France ends the War of the Spanish Succession;[2] France cedes Newfoundland, Acadia, Hudson Bay and St Kitts to Great Britain.[3]
Arts and culture
[edit]- La Foire de Guibray, farce by Alain-René Lesage
- Arlequin Mahomet, farce by Alain-René Lesage
- Le Tombeau de Nostradamus, farce by Alain-René Lesage, first performed at the Foire de Saint Laurent in 1714.
Births
[edit]- 2 January – Marie Dumesnil, actress (died 1803).
- 6 August – Marie Sophie de Courcillon, noblewoman (died 1756).
- 3 October – Antoine Dauvergne, composer and violinist (died 1797).
- 5 October – Denis Diderot, philosopher (died 1784)[4]
- 28 December – Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, astronomer (died 1762).
Deaths
[edit]- 11 January – Pierre Jurieu, Protestant leader (born 1637)
- 24 March – Toussaint de Forbin-Janson, Catholic Cardinal and Bishop of Beauvais (born 1631)
- 6 September – François-Séraphin Régnier-Desmarais, ecclesiastic, diplomat and poet (born 1632)
- 9 November – Armand Charles de La Porte de La Meilleraye, general (born 1632)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715)". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
- ^ Cates, William L. R. (1863). The Pocket Date Book. London: Chapman and Hall.
- ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1917). "Diderot, Denis". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 6 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. p. 128. Retrieved 22 November 2014.