1683 in France
# 1683 in France

Events from the year 1683 in France.

## Incumbents

* Monarch: Louis XIV

## Births

* 4 February – Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, explorer of North America (d. 1765)
* 28 February – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, scientist (d. 1757)
* 23 June – Etienne Fourmont, orientalist (d. 1745)
* 25 September – Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer (d. 1764)

## Deaths

* 10 July – François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
* 30 July – Maria Theresa of Spain, first wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
* 6 September – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (b. 1619)
