1719 in France

Events from the year 1719 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}}

1718 to 1720 – The Pontcallec Conspiracy
April 4 – The French army under James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick invades the Basque provinces of Spain, with 20,000 troops crossing into Navarre{{cite book|editor=Mellersh, H. E. L.|title=Chronology of World History|volume=9|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=1999|page=532}}
May 23 – Mississippi Company becomes the Compagnie Perpétuelle des Indes
June 30 – Berwick begins the Siege of San Sebastian in northern Spain
August 19 – San Sebastian surrenders to Berwick. Local leaders petition for the surrounding province to be annexed to France, but is later returned to Spain at the Treaty of The Hague

October 17 – Jacques Cazotte, writer (died 1792){{cite encyclopedia |title=Cazotte, Jacques |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/2/4/0717.html |access-date=5 September 2015 }}

March 3 – Jacques-Louis de Valon, soldier and poet (born 1659)
March 10 – Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond, architect and garden designer (born 1679)
November 8 – Michel Rolle, mathematician (born 1652)