1715 in France

Events from the year 1715 in France

Incumbents

Monarch – Louis XIV (until 1 September),{{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}} then Louis XV{{cite web |title=BBC - History - King Louis XV |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/louis_xv.shtml |website=www.bbc.co.uk |access-date=17 June 2022}}
Regent: Philip II of Orleans (from 1 September){{cite book |last1=Semmens |first1=Richard Templar |title=The Bals Publics at the Paris Opéra in the Eighteenth Century |date=2004 |publisher=Pendragon Press |isbn=978-1-57647-034-3 |page=29 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p6RRLRH12foC&pg=PA29 |language=en}}

9 January – Robert-François Damiens, domestic servant, executed for the attempted assassination of Louis XV (died 1757)
12 January – Jacques Duphly, harpsichordist and composer (died 1789)
23 January – Jean-Olivier Briand, bishop of Quebec (died 1794)
30 January – Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois, botanist (died 1804)
22 February – Charles-Nicolas Cochin, engraver (died 1790)
15 September – Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, military officer, known for introducing the Gribeauval system (died 1789)

File:Louis XIV of France.jpg , King of France 1643–1715]]

8 January – Noël Bouton de Chamilly, military officer (born 1636)
29 January – Bernard Lamy, mathematician (born 1640)
20 May – Armand Jean de Vignerot du Plessis, sailor and nobleman (born 1629)
1 September – Louis XIV, King of France since 1643 (born 1638){{cite encyclopedia |title=Ludvig XIV |pages=8–10 |encyclopedia=Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon |volume=16 |year=1924 |edition=2 |editor=Blangstrup, Chr. |editor-link=Christian Blangstrup |publisher=J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel |location=Copenhagen |language=da |url=https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/16/0020.html |access-date=19 August 2015 }}
1 September – François Girardon, sculptor (born 1628)