1712 in France

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Events from the year 1712 in France

Incumbents edit

Monarch – Louis XIV^[1]

Events edit

March – Cassard expedition sets out
24 July – Battle of Denain

Arts and culture edit

12 January – The première of the opera Idoménée by André Campra takes place at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris
27 December – The première of the opera Callirhoé by André Cardinal Destouches takes place at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris

Births edit

2 January – Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc, feral child (died 1775)
28 February – Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, general (died 1759)
14 March – Charles-Antoine Jombert, bookseller and publisher (died 1784)
27 March – Claude Bourgelat, veterinary surgeon (died 1779)
8 April – Pierre Pouchot, military engineer officer (died 1769)
17 May – Jean-Baptiste Greppo, canon and archaeologist (died 1767)
28 May – Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, economist (died 1759)
21 June – Luc Urbain de Bouëxic, comte de Guichen, admiral (died 1790)
25 June – Exupere Joseph Bertin, anatomist (died 1781)
9 July – Charles-Étienne Pesselier, playwright and librettist (died 1763)
15 August – César Gabriel de Choiseul, officer and statesman (died 1785)
24 August – Michel-Barthélémy Ollivier, painter and engraver (died 1784)
15 September – Pierre Simon Fournier, punch-cutter (died 1768)
22 September – François-Joseph-Gaston de Partz de Pressy, cleric (died 1789)
26 September – Dominique de La Rochefoucauld, cardinal (died 1800)
4 November – Charles Louis de Marbeuf, general (died 1786)
7 November – Antoine Choquet de Lindu, architect (died 1790)
20 November – Guillaume Voiriot, portrait painter (died 1799)
24 November – Charles-Michel de l'Épée, priest and educator of the deaf (died 1789)
12 December
- Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Lorraine-born Austrian general and soldier (died 1780)
- François-Antoine Devaux, Lorraine-born poet and man of letters (died 1796)
Approximate date – Angélique du Coudray, pioneer of modern midwifery (died 1794)

Deaths edit

Princess Marie Adélaïde, Dauphine of France

12 January – Jean-Baptiste-Joseph de Coriolis de Villeneuve d'Espinouse, aristocrat (born 1655)
12 February – Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, Dauphine of France (born 1685)
18 February – Louis, Duke of Burgundy, Dauphin of France (born 1682)
22 February – Nicolas Catinat, military officer (born 1637)
8 March – Louis, Duke of Brittany (born 1707)
11 April – Richard Simon, priest, Oratorian, biblical critic, orientalist and controversialist (born 1638)^[2]
11 June – Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme, military commander (born 1654)
13 July – Isaac de Porthau, Gascon black musketeer of the Maison du Roi (born 1617)
9 September – Jean Mauger, medallist (born 1648)
14 September – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-born astronomer and engineer (born 1625)
5 November – Charles Honoré d'Albert, duc de Luynes, noble (born 1646)
Full date missing – Jean-Baptiste Forest, landscape painter (born 1636)