1707 in France

Events from the year 1707 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XIV

Events

• 25 April: Battle of Almansa, described as "probably the only Battle in history in which the English forces were commanded by a Frenchman, the French by an Englishman".
• 2–3 May: Action of 2 May 1707
• 29 July - 21 August: Battle of Toulon: Prince Eugene is forced to abandon his attempt to take the naval port of Toulon
• 21 October: Battle at The Lizard

Births

• 8 January - Louis, Dauphin of France, son of Louis, Duke of Burgundy (died 1712)
• 10 April - Michel Corrette, organist and composer (died 1795)
• Nicolas La Grange, playwright and translator (died 1775)

Deaths

• 26 February - Louis Cousin, translator, historian, lawyer, royal censor and president of the cour des monnaies (born 1627)
• 24 April - Bernard Desjean, Baron de Pointis, admiral and privateer (born 1645)
• 5 November - Denis Dodart, physician, naturalist and botanist (born 1634)
• Julie d'Aubigny, swordswoman and opera singer (born c.1670)

See also

• War of the Spanish Succession

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