Events from the year 1717 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Louis XV Regent: Philip II of Orleans
Events 4 January (24 December 1716 OS) – Triple Alliance treaty between France, the Dutch Republic and Great Britain against Spain
Arts and culture 27 March – Actress Adrienne Lecouvreur is invited to join the Comédie-Française in Paris, performing first in the title rôle of Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon's Electre 16 May – Voltaire is sentenced to eleven months in the Bastille and banished from Paris for criticizing the Duc D'Orléans;This Day in History. while in prison he writes his first play, Oedipe ("Oedipus") The last two volumes of Antoine Galland's Les mille et une nuits are published posthumously in Lyon of the first translation of One Thousand and One Nights into a European language, including the first translation of the story of Ali Baba
Births 18 January – Jean-François-Marie de Surville, trader and navigator (died 1770) 8 May – Charles Guillaume Le Normant d'Étiolles, official, husband of Madame de Pompadour (died 1799) 20 June – Jacques Saly, sculptor (died 1776) 27 June – Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, botanist (died 1799) 13 August – Louis François, Prince of Conti, nobleman, military leader (died 1776) 15 August – Louis Carrogis Carmontelle, dramatist (died 1806) 5 October – Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, mistress of King Louis XV (died 1744) 16 November – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician and encyclopædist (died 1783) 29 December – Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, statesman and diplomat (died 1785)
Full date unknown Claude Humbert Piarron de Chamousset, philanthropist (died 1773)
Deaths
3 March – Pierre Allix, Protestant clergyman (born 1641) 5 March – François de Callières, diplomat, member of the Académie française (born 1645) 3 April – Jacques Ozanam, mathematician (born 1640) 5 April – Jean Jouvenet, painter (born 1644) 8 April – Antoine Benoist, painter and sculptor (born 1632) 17 May – Bon Boullogne, painter (born 1649) 9 June – Jeanne Guyon, mystic (born 1648) 11 June – Louis de Carrières, priest and Bible commentator (born 1662) 29 June – Augustin le Gardeur de Courtemanche, soldier and ambassador (born 1663) 13 August – Nicolas Perrot, explorer, fur trader and diplomat (born c.1644) September – Casimir Oudin, monk and librarian (born 1638) October – Philippe Pastour de Costebelle, naval officer and Governor of Newfoundland (born 1661) 21 November – Jean-Baptiste Santerre, painter (born 1658)
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