1712 in France

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Events from the year 1712 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XIV^[1]

Events

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

Arts and culture

• 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

• 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

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 unknown

• Jean-Baptiste Forest, landscape painter (born 1636)

See also

References

1. "BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715)". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
2. Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1926). "Simon, Richard". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 21 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J. H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. p. 427. Retrieved 2015-08-19.