1699 in France

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See also:	Other events of 1699; History of France • Timeline • Years

Events from the year 1699 in France.

Incumbents

20 January: Louis XIV gave the French Academy of Sciences its first rules.^[2]
11 June: France, England and the Dutch Republic agree on the terms of the Treaty of London (1700) (Second Partition Treaty) for Spain.^[3]
The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture holds the first of a series of salons at the Louvre Palace.

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)^[4]
25 August: Charles Étienne Louis Camus, mathematician and mechanician (d. 1768)^[5]
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)^[6]

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)^[7]
Undated: Antoine Le Grand, Cartesian philosopher, in England (b. 1629)^[8]