Events from the year 1696 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Louis XIV
Events
The Edict of 1696
This Edict stated that for a coat of arms to be valid, it had to be registered with the King of Arms for a fee. Due to this, 110 000 coats of arms were registered by d'Hozier, the King of Arms.
Treaty of Turin
Signed on 29 August 1696 by the French King and the Duchy of Savoy, ended the latter's involvement in the Nine Years' War.
Births
29 February – Esprit Antoine Blanchard, musician (died 1770) 31 July – Dumont de Montigny, colonial officer (died 1760)
Deaths 14 March – Jean Domat, jurisconsult (born 1625) 14 April – Isaac de l'Ostal de Saint-Martin, chevalier (born c.1629) 17 April – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, aristocrat (born 1626) 27 April – Simon Foucher, polemic philosopher (born 1644) 11 May – Jean de La Bruyère, philosopher and moralist (born 1645) 9 June – Antoine Varillas, historian (born 1624) 29 June – Michel Lambert, composer (born 1610) 28 July – Charles Colbert, marquis de Croissy, statesman and diplomat (born 1625) 21 December – Louise Moillon, painter (born 1610)
Full date unknown Jean Richer, astronomer (born 1630) Jean Baptiste Mathey, architect and painter (born 1630)
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