1681 in France
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Events from the year 1681 in France.
Incumbents
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[edit]- 15 May – The Canal du Midi is opened officially, as the Canal Royal de Languedoc.[2]
- 30 September – France annexes the city of Strasbourg, previously a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire.
- The Dragonnades are instituted to intimidate Huguenot families into either leaving France or converting to Catholicism. Collections are made in England for needy French refugees.
- The Port of Honfleur is remodelled by Abraham Duquesne.
Births
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- 9 April – Nicolas Edelinck, engraver (d. 1767)
- 11 April – Anne Danican Philidor, musician (d. 1728)
- 26 May – Antoine-François Botot Dangeville, dancing master, dancer and ballet teacher (d. c.1737)
- 31 May – Joseph-François Lafitau, Jesuit missionary, ethnologist, and naturalist (d. 1746)
- 6 October – Charles François de Mondion, architect and military engineer (d. 1733)
- 19 October – Claude Bouhier de Lantenay, clergyman and the second bishop of Dijon (d. 1755)
- 7 November – Isaac-Joseph Berruyer, Jesuit historian (d. 1748)
Full date missing
[edit]- Antoine Sartine, French-born financier and Spanish administrator (d. 1744)
Deaths
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- 16 January – Olivier Patru, lawyer and writer (b. 1604)
- 24 January – Jean Baptiste Gonet, Dominican theologian (b. c.1616)[3]
- 6 May – Catherine Trianon, fortune teller and accused poisoner in the famous Poison Affair (b. 1627)
- 23 May – Claude Deschamps, actor and playwright (b. c.1600)
- 28 June – Marie Angélique de Scorailles, noblewoman (b. 1661)
- 15 September – Louise Marie Anne de Bourbon, illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France and his Maîtresse-en-titre, Madame de Montespan (b. 1674)
- 23 September – Pierre Simon Jaillot, sculptor (b. 1631)[4][5]
- 27 September – Henri de La Ferté-Senneterre, marshal of France and governor of Lorraine (b. 1599)
- 26 November – Jean Garnier, Jesuit church historian, patristic scholar and moral theologian (b. 1612)[6]
- 10 December – Gaspard Marsy, sculptor (b. 1624 or 1625)
- 16 December – François Vavasseur, Jesuit humanist and controversialist (b. 1605)
- 19 December – Marguerite Joly, accused poisoner in the Poison Affair, confessed under torture to several murders, sentenced to be burned at the stake (b. 1637)
- 21 December – Lacuzon, Franc-Comtois leader (b. 1607)
Full date missing
[edit]- Laurent Drelincourt, theologian (b. 1626)
- Jacques Gaffarel, scholar and astrologer (b. 1601)
- Louis Phélypeaux, seigneur de La Vrillière, politician (b. 1598)
- Charles Joseph Tricassin, Capuchin theologian
- Pierre Guillaume Néel III, Huguenot (b. 1638)
- December – Charles Cotin, abbé, philosopher and poet (b. 1604)
- after 1681 – Abraham Ragueneau, painter (b. 1623)
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ "BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715)". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
- ^ Rolt, L. T. C. (1973). From Sea to Sea: An Illustrated History of the Canal du Midi. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 0713904712.
- ^ "Jean Baptiste Gonet". newadvent.org. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
- ^ "Préemption d'un ivoire de Pierre-Simon Jaillot par le Louvre - La Tribune de l'Art". www.latribunedelart.com (in French). Retrieved 21 July 2018.
- ^ "The Crucifixion | Jaillot, Pierre Simon | V&A Search the Collections". collections.vam.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
- ^ Mershman, Francis (1909). . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Robert Appleton Company.