1691 in France

• Monarch – Louis XIV{{cite web |title=BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715) |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/louis_xiv.shtml |website=www.bbc.co.uk |access-date=9 June 2022}}

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• 18 September – Battle of Leuze

• Gaston-Laurent Coeurdoux, Jesuit missionary (died 1779)
• Charles d'Orléans de Rothelin, clergyman (died 1744)
• Joseph-Charles Roettiers, engraver and medalist (died 1779)
• François Alexandre Pierre de Garsault, botanist, zoologist and painter (died 1778)

• Jean Petitot, painter (born 1607){{cite encyclopedia |title=Petitot, Jean |encyclopedia=Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon |volume=19 |year=1915 |edition=2 |editor=Blangstrup, Chr. |editor-link=Christian Blangstrup |publisher=J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel |location=Copenhagen |language=da |url=https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/19/0087.html |access-date=30 September 2015 }}
• Jean-Jacques Renouard de Villayer, member of the Conseil d'État (born 1607)

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