1719 in France

Events from the year 1719 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XV
• Regent: Philip II of Orleans

Events

• 1718 to 1720 – The Pontcallec Conspiracy
• April 4 – The French army under James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick invades the Basque provinces of Spain, with 20,000 troops crossing into Navarre
• May 23 – Mississippi Company becomes the Compagnie Perpétuelle des Indes
• June 30 – Berwick begins the Siege of San Sebastian in northern Spain
• August 19 – San Sebastian surrenders to Berwick. Local leaders petition for the surrounding province to be annexed to France, but is later returned to Spain at the Treaty of The Hague

Births

• October 17 – Jacques Cazotte, writer (died 1792)

Deaths

• March 3 – Jacques-Louis de Valon, soldier and poet (born 1659)
• March 10 – Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond, architect and garden designer (born 1679)
• November 8 – Michel Rolle, mathematician (born 1652)

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