1699 in France
# 1699 in France

Events from the year 1699 in France.

## Incumbents

* Monarch: Louis XIV

## Events

* 20 January: Louis XIV gave the French Academy of Sciences its first rules.
* 11 June: France, England and the Dutch Republic agree on the terms of the Treaty of London (1700) (Second Partition Treaty) for Spain.
* The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture holds the first of a series of salons at the Louvre Palace.

## Births

* 26 March: Hubert-François Gravelot, illustrator (d. 1773)
* 26 June: Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, salonnière (d. 1777)
* 17 August: Bernard de Jussieu, naturalist (d. 1777)
* 25 August: Charles Étienne Louis Camus, mathematician and mechanician (d. 1768)
* 13 October: Jeanne Quinault, actress and playwright (d. 1783)
* 2 November: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, painter (d. 1779)
* 25 November: Pierre Subleyras, painter (d. 1749)
* Undated: Joseph Galien, professor of philosophy and theology at the University of Avignon, meteorologist, physicist and writer on aeronautics (d. 1762 or 1782)

## Deaths

* 20 February: Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, painter (b. 1636)
* 21 April: Jean Racine, classic dramatist (b. 1639)
* 26 September: Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne, diplomat and minister (b. 1618)
* 18 November: Pierre Pomet, pharmacist (b. 1658)
* 30 December: Pierre Robert, composer (b. c. 1618)
* Undated: Antoine Le Grand, Cartesian philosopher, in England (b. 1629)
