Events from the year 1719 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Louis XV Regent: Philip II of Orleans
Events 1718 to 1720 – The Pontcallec Conspiracy April 4 – The French army under James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick invades the Basque provinces of Spain, with 20,000 troops crossing into Navarre May 23 – Mississippi Company becomes the Compagnie Perpétuelle des Indes June 30 – Berwick begins the Siege of San Sebastian in northern Spain August 19 – San Sebastian surrenders to Berwick. Local leaders petition for the surrounding province to be annexed to France, but is later returned to Spain at the Treaty of The Hague
Births
October 17 – Jacques Cazotte, writer (died 1792)
Deaths March 3 – Jacques-Louis de Valon, soldier and poet (born 1659) March 10 – Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond, architect and garden designer (born 1679) November 8 – Michel Rolle, mathematician (born 1652)
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