1709 in France

Events from the year 1709 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}}

1 January – Battle of St. John's: French capture St. John's, capital of the British colony of Newfoundland.
6 January – Western Europe's Great Frost of 1709, the coldest period in 500 years, begins during the night, lasting three months, with its effects felt for the entire year.Pain, Stephanie. "[https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126942.100-1709-the-year-that-europe-froze.html?full=true 1709: The year that Europe froze]." New Scientist, 7 February 2009. In France, the Atlantic coast and Seine River freeze, crops fail, and 24,000 Parisians die. Floating ice enters the North Sea.
13 April – The Raudot Ordinance of 1709 becomes law in the French colony of New France, legalizing slavery.
11 September – Battle of Malplaquet (War of the Spanish Succession) fought near the French border: French strategic victory but tactical victory for the opposing alliance.

7 February – Charles de Brosses, writer (died 1777){{cite encyclopedia|title=Brosses, Charles de|encyclopedia=Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon|volume=4|year=1916|edition=2|editor=Blangstrup, Chr.|editor-link=Christian Blangstrup|publisher=J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel|location=Copenhagen|language=da|url=https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/4/0111.html|access-date=2015-09-12}}
24 February – Jacques de Vaucanson, engineer and inventor (died 1782)
14 April – Charles Collé, dramatist (died 1783)
7 August – Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan, polymath (died 1784)
29 August – Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, poet and dramatist (died 1777)
3 September – Joan Claudi Peiròt, Occitan writer (died 1795)
23 November – Julien Offray de La Mettrie, physician and philosopher (died 1751)
Full date missing – Jean Girardet, painter of portrait miniatures (died 1778)

20 January – François de la Chaise, confessor of Louis XIV (born 1624)
9 February – François Louis, Prince of Conti, general (born 1664)
5 April – Roger de Piles, painter, engraver, art critic and diplomat (born 1635)
17 July – Pascal Collasse, composer (baptized 1649)
4 September – Jean-François Regnard, comic poet (born 1655)
17 October – François Mauriceau, obstetrician (born 1637)
8 December – Thomas Corneille, dramatist (born 1625){{cite web |title=Thomas Corneille {{!}} French dramatist {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Corneille |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=10 March 2022 |language=en}}
13 December – Louis de Verjus, politician and diplomat (born 1629)
31 December – Pierre Cally, philosopher (born 1630)
Full date missing
Jean-Baptiste Boyer d’Éguilles, engraver, painter and collector (born 1650)
Louise de Prie, royal governess (born 1624)
Thierry Ruinart, monk (born 1657)