January 1696 – 12 February 1771) was a French geographer. Jean de Beaurain was a French geographer — geographer of Louis XV — born on 7 January 1696 in Aix-en-Issart...

1696 in Vichy was a French physician. In April 1672, he became the king's first doctor in the service of Louis XIV. He was Lord and Count de Jouy-en-Josas...

is a French translation of the Catholic Bible done by Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy. It was first published in installments between 1667 and 1696. Though...

Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and Baron de St Castin between August 14–15, 1696. Commander of Fort William Henry, Captain Pasco Chubb, surrendered the fort...

Saint-Germain-en-Laye, to Louis XIII and Anne of Austria. He was named Louis Dieudonné (Louis the God-given) and bore the traditional title of French heirs apparent:...

Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 8 March 1696. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in five acts and a prologue. The libretto by Saint-Jean...

Tragédie en musique (French: [tʁaʒedi ɑ̃ myzik], musical tragedy), also known as tragédie lyrique (French: [tʁaʒedi liʁik], lyric tragedy), is a genre...

Bronne, a tributary of the Canche. Jean de Beaurain (1696–1771), geographer, was born in Aix-en-Issart. Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department "Répertoire...

Printed in Amsterdam. 1696, Translation of the whole Bible by the Jansenist abbey of Port-Royal de Paris, translated between 1657 and 1696. Blaise Pascal and...

Antoine Varillas (1624 – 9 June 1696) was a French historian, best known for his history of heresy. He was born in Guéret and made a troubled way as a...

Lambert (1610 – 29 June 1696) was a French singer, theorbist, and composer. Lambert was born at Champigny-sur-Veude, France. He received his musical...

eighteenth-century France. Blanchard was born at Pernes in the County of Avignon in 1696. His father was a physician. He was a choirboy at the Cathedral of Aix-en-Provence...

an opera by the French composer Pascal Collasse, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opéra) on 15 January 1696. It takes the form...

France: La France en Amérique (in French) Archives Canada-France: Nouvelle-France. Histoire d'une terre française en Amérique (in French) Site personnel...

Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans (26 December 1646 – 17 March 1696), known as Isabelle d'Orléans, was the Duchess of Alençon and, during her husband's lifetime...

interim representative) 1692 Robert le Rroux d'Esneval (ambassador) 1693-1696 Melchior de Polignac 1697 Mr. de Forval initially designated as envoy fell...

line died out. Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans (26 December 1646 – 17 March 1696) married Louis Joseph of Lorraine, Duke of Guise and had issue-but line died...

September 1696 – 23 September 1780) was a French hostess and patron of the arts. Madame du Deffand was born at the Château de Chamrond, in Ligny-en-Brionnais...

Duchy of Savoy and Catalonia. The fighting generally favoured France's armies, but by 1696 his country was in the grip of an economic crisis. The Maritime...

(1694–1772) Guillaume-Antoine Calvière (1695–1755) Pierre Février (1696– after 1762) Jean Girard (1696–1765) Dom George Franck (c. 1700/10– after 1740) Louis Archimbaud...

mountings and a flat lock". In 1696 muskets of this pattern were manufactured at Tulle for the fusiliers marins of the French navy. These had 45-inch barrels...

de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (French: [maʁi də ʁabytɛ̃ ʃɑ̃tal]; 5 February 1626 – 17 April 1696), also widely known as Madame de Sévigné or...

created by Louis XIV in 1696 – by official posts, and by positions in the Royal House (the Great Officers of the Crown of France), such as grand maître...

(1684–1762), Marshal of France in 1741 Maurice, comte de Saxe (1696–1750), Marshal of France in 1741, Marshal General of France in 1747 Jean-Baptiste Andrault...

studio, including Hyacinthe Rigaud from 1671. Jean Ranc moved to Paris in 1696, and became the student of Rigaud, working in his studio. Ranc registered...

Duke of Berwick, 2nd Duke of Liria and Xérica (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, 21 October 1696 – Naples, Italy, 2 June 1738) was a Jacobite and Spanish nobleman...

Blémur, (8 January 1618 – 24 March 1696 in Chatillon (fr)) known under the name Mère Saint-Benoît, was a 17th-century French Benedictine nun and mystical writer...

Catalonia. The fighting generally favoured Louis XIV's armies, but by 1696, France was in the grip of an economic crisis. The maritime powers (England and...

demanded increased global protection from the navy. In 1696, a combination of regular French naval forces and privateers went to the Caribbean hoping...

de la Touche (1670) and L'Abbat of Toulouse (1690, 1696). The modern foil was developed in France as a training technique in the middle of the 18th century;...