1716 in France

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "1716 in France" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

← 1715 1714 1713 1712 1711 1716 in France → 1717 1718 1719 1720 1721
Decades:	1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s
See also:	Other events of 1716 History of France  • Timeline  • Years

Events from the year 1716 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XV^[1]
• Regent:
  Philip II of Orleans^[2]

• May [3]- John Law Scottish economist establishes Le Banque Générale in Paris.
• April – The
  Papal exclave in Avignon and later moves to Italy
  .

• 20 January - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, writer and numismatist (died 1795)
• 29 May -
  Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, naturalist (died 1800
  )
• 18 June - Joseph-Marie Vien, painter (died 1809)
• 16 December -
  Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, diplomat and writer (died 1798
  )
• 26 December - Jean François de Saint-Lambert, poet (died 1803)

Deaths

• 13 December - Charles de La Fosse, painter (born 1640)

Full date unknown

• Pierre-Marie-Jérôme Trésaguet, engineer (died 1796).

See also

References