1687 in France
# 1687 in France

Events from the year 1687 in France

## Incumbents

* Monarch – Louis XIV

## Events

* March – Embassy of Loubère-Céberet to Siam, consisting of a French expeditionary force of 1,361 soldiers, missionaries, envoys and crews aboard five warships.
* Fort Denonville established

## Births

* 15 February – Philippe Charles de La Fare, a Marshal of France (d. 1752)
* 8 May – Jean Henri Desmercières, French-Danish merchant, banker and landowner (d. 1778)

## Deaths

* 18 March – François Collignon, engraver, print-seller and publisher (born c.1609)
* 19 March – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, explorer (b. 1643)

### Full date missing

* Charles de Grimaldi-Régusse, aristocrat, landowner and politician (b. 1612)
