1694 in France

Events from the year 1694 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XIV

Events

• 27 May – Battle of Torroella
• 29 June – Battle of Texel

Births

• 21 November – Voltaire, writer, historian, and philosopher (died 1778)

Full date unknown

• Louis, Duke of Joyeuse, nobleman (died 1724)

Deaths

• 16 April – Claire-Clémence de Maillé-Brézé, noblewoman (born 1628)
• 28 September – Gabriel Mouton, scientist (born 1618)
• 25 November – Ismaël Bullialdus, astronomer and mathematician (born 1605)
• 4 December – Bernardin Gigault de Bellefonds, general (born 1630)

Full date unknown

• Paul Fréart de Chantelou, collector (born 1609)
• René Ouvrard, composer (born 1624)

See also

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