Events from the year 1706 in France.

Incumbents Monarch – Louis XIV

Events 23 May – Battle of Ramillies 8 September – Battle of Castiglione

Births 1 March – Sébastien Bigot de Morogues, soldier (died 1781)

Deaths

21 January – Adrien Baillet, scholar and critic (born 1649) 30 June – Jacques Boyvin, composer (born c.1649) 3 July – Thomas Regnaudin, sculptor (baptized 1622) 9 September – Ferdinand de Marsin, general (born 1656) 28 December – Pierre Bayle, philosopher (born 1647)

Full date unknown Jacques Testu de Belval, poet and preacher (born c.1626) Jean Testu de Mauroy, clergyman and academic (born 1626)

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