1687 in France

Events from the year 1687 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XIV

Events

• March – Embassy of Loubère-Céberet to Siam, consisting of a French expeditionary force of 1,361 soldiers, missionaries, envoys and crews aboard five warships.
• Fort Denonville established

Births

• 15 February – Philippe Charles de La Fare, a Marshal of France (d. 1752)
• 8 May – Jean Henri Desmercières, French-Danish merchant, banker and landowner (d. 1778)

Deaths

• 18 March – François Collignon, engraver, print-seller and publisher (born c.1609)
• 19 March – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, explorer (b. 1643)
• 6 November – Charles de Grimaldi-Régusse, aristocrat, landowner and politician (b. 1612)

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