1693 in France

Events from the year 1693 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XIV

Events

• 27 June – Battle of Lagos
• 29 July – Battle of Landen
• 4 October – Battle of Marsaglia

Births

• 10 November – Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière, governor (died 1756)

Deaths

• 8 January – Marguerite de la Sablière, salonist and polymath (born c.1640)
• 7 February – Paul Pellisson, writer (born 1624)
• 9 April – Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, memoirist (born 1618)
• 3 May – Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, courtier (born 1607)
• 12 September – Gabrielle de Rochechouart de Mortemart, noblewoman (born 1633)
• 16 December – Jacques Rousseau, painter (born 1630)

Full date unknown

• Henri Justel, scholar and administrator (born 1620)
• François Duchesne, historian (born 1616)
• François de Poilly, engraver (born 1623)

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