Events from the year 1713 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Louis XIV
Events 11 April – The Second Treaty of Utrecht between Great Britain and France ends the War of the Spanish Succession; France cedes Newfoundland, Acadia, Hudson Bay and St Kitts to Great Britain.
Arts and culture La Foire de Guibray, farce by Alain-René Lesage Arlequin Mahomet, farce by Alain-René Lesage Le Tombeau de Nostradamus, farce by Alain-René Lesage, first performed at the Foire de Saint Laurent in 1714.
Births
2 January – Marie Dumesnil, actress (died 1803). 6 August – Marie Sophie de Courcillon, noblewoman (died 1756). 3 October – Antoine Dauvergne, composer and violinist (died 1797). 5 October – Denis Diderot, philosopher (died 1784) 28 December – Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, astronomer (died 1762).
Deaths 11 January – Pierre Jurieu, Protestant leader (born 1637) 24 March – Toussaint de Forbin-Janson, Catholic Cardinal and Bishop of Beauvais (born 1631) 6 September – François-Séraphin Régnier-Desmarais, ecclesiastic, diplomat and poet (born 1632) 9 November – Armand Charles de La Porte de La Meilleraye, general (born 1632)
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