1700 in France

Events from the year 1700 in France

Incumbents

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}}

24 March – The Treaty of London is signed between France, England and the Dutch Republic.{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldica.org/topics/royalty/ps1713.htm|title=The House Laws of the German Habsburgs|access-date=2011-11-21}}
15 November – Louis XIV of France accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou of the House of Bourbon, who becomes Philip V of Spain (in accordance with the will of Charles II of Spain), thus triggering the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714).{{cite book|first=Maximilian Samson Friedrich|last=Schoell|title=Cours d'histoire des états européens depuis le bouleversement de l'Empire romain d'Occident jusqu'en 1789|volume=7|publisher=de l'imprimerie royale et chez Duncker et Humblot|year=1832|page=306|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QVMTAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA306|via=Google Books|accessdate=2023-03-19}}

6 September – Claude-Nicolas Le Cat, surgeon (died 1768){{cite web|title=Le Cat, Claude-Nicolas|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830902523.html|publisher=Encyclopedia.com |access-date=18 August 2015}}
21 October – Princess Élisabeth Charlotte of Lorraine (died 1711)
19 November – Jean-Antoine Nollet, clergyman and physicist (died 1770)

Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, architect (died 1771){{Cite web|url=http://www.saint-petersburg.com/famous-people/francesco-rastrelli/|title=Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli|website=saint-petersburg.com/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190829235216/http://www.saint-petersburg.com/famous-people/francesco-rastrelli/|archive-date=2019-08-29|access-date=2020-03-28}}

6 January – Charles-Félix de Galéan, aristocrat and Lieutenant-General (born 1620)
9 August – Jean-Baptiste Tuby, Italian-born sculptor (born 1635)
15 September – André Le Nôtre landscape architect (born 1613)
23 October – Anne Marie de Bourbon, princess (born 1675)
13 November – Louis Guittar, pirate, hanged in London
30 November – Armande Béjart, actress (born 1640)