1720 in France
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Events from the year 1720 in France.
Incumbents
[edit]- Monarch: Louis XV[1]
- Regent: Philip II of Orleans[2]
Events
[edit]- February 17 – Treaty of The Hague signed between Spain, Britain, France, Austria and the Dutch Republic, ending the War of the Quadruple Alliance.[3]
- Outbreak of plague in Marseille; the bishop, Henri François Xavier de Belsunce de Castelmoron, wins approbation by remaining in his diocese.
- John Law abandons all his accumulated wealth and flees to Brussels amidst the collapse of the Mississippi Bubble.
Births
[edit]- March 22 – Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (d. 1799)
- November 1 – Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (d. 1791)
- November 16 – Carlo Antonio Campioni, French-born composer (d. 1788)
Deaths
[edit]- April 21 – Antoine Hamilton, French writer (b. 1646)
- June 27 – Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (b. 1639)
- August 17 – Anne Lefèvre, French scholar (b. 1654)
- September 3 – Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1648)
- October 10 – Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (b. 1640)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "BBC - History - King Louis XV". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- ^ Semmens, Richard Templar (2004). The Bals Publics at the Paris Opéra in the Eighteenth Century. Pendragon Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-1-57647-034-3.
- ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 297–298. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.