1718 in France
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Events from the year 1718 in France.
==Incumbents==
- Monarch: 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{{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}}
Events
- January – France declares war on Spain, leading to the 2-year War of the Quadruple Alliance.
- May 7 – New Orleans is founded.
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- November 18 – Voltaire's first play, Oedipus, premières at the Comédie-Française in Paris. This is his first use of the pseudonym.
Births
- January 29 – Paul Rabaut, Huguenot pastor (d. 1794)
- October 19 – Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (d. 1804)
Deaths
- February 18 – Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (b. 1663)
- April 3 – Jacques Ozanam, mathematician (b. 1640)
- April 27 – Jacques Bernard, theologian (b. 1658)
- May 22 – Gaspard Abeille, lyric and tragic poet (b. 1648)
- June 13 – Louis, Count of Armagnac, noble (b. 1641)
- July 28 – Étienne Baluze, scholar (b. 1630)
- September 12 – Louise de Maisonblanche, illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France (b. 1676)
- October 19 – Alphonse Henri, Count of Harcourt, noble (b. 1646)
See also
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