1696 in France

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Events from the year 1696 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XIV ^[1]

Events

• The Edict of 1696

This Edict stated that for a coat of arms to be valid, it had to be registered with the King of Arms for a fee. Due to this, 110 000 coats of arms were registered by d'Hozier, the King of Arms. ^[2]

• Treaty of Turin

Signed on 29 August 1696 by the French King and the Duchy of Savoy, ended the latter's involvement in the Nine Years' War.

Births

Esprit Antoine Blanchard

• 31 July – Dumont de Montigny, colonial officer (died 1760)

Full date missing

• Esprit Antoine Blanchard, musician (died 1770) ^[3]

Deaths

• 14 March – Jean Domat, jurisconsult (born 1625)
• 14 April – Isaac de l'Ostal de Saint-Martin, chevalier (born c.1629)
• 17 April – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, aristocrat (born 1626)
• 27 April – Simon Foucher, polemic philosopher (born 1644)
• 11 May – Jean de La Bruyère, philosopher and moralist (born 1645)
• 29 June – Michel Lambert, composer (born 1610)
• 28 July – Charles Colbert, marquis de Croissy, statesman and diplomat (born 1625)
• 21 December – Louise Moillon, painter (born 1610)

Full date missing

• Antoine Varillas, historian (born 1624)
• Jean Richer, astronomer (born 1630)
• Jean Baptiste Mathey, architect and painter (born 1630)
• Médard des Groseilliers, explorer (born 1618)

References

1. "BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715)". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
2. "French Grant of Arms, 1696". www.heraldica.org. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
3. Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1915). "Blanchard, Esprit Joseph Antoine". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 3 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. p. 385. Retrieved 28 August 2015.