Events from the year 1718 in France.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Louis XV[1]
- Regent: Philip II of Orleans[2]
Events
- January – France declares war on Spain, leading to the 2-year War of the Quadruple Alliance.
- May 7 – New Orleans is founded.
- 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)
References
- ^ "BBC - History - King Louis XV". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- ^ Semmens, Richard Templar (2004). The Bals Publics at the Paris Opéra in the Eighteenth Century. Pendragon Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-1-57647-034-3.